{"id":5701,"date":"2022-06-18T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T14:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5701"},"modified":"2022-06-18T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T14:02:23","slug":"the-tide-turns-in-russias-favour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5701","title":{"rendered":"The Tide Turns in Russia’s Favour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s pretty clear from the stories that Russia is now making territorial gains. This is not a surprise; revisit what I wrote<\/a> as the conflict was just getting underway:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, another warning: the tide can turn. Odds are, in fact, tilted towards things not always coming out as much in Ukraine\u2019s favour as they have been so far. Remember the part above about Russia doing badly? No nation deliberately tries<\/em> to do badly. The Russian forces are at this moment certainly trying to correct their mistakes. Not all<\/em> of these measures will fail. Therefore, Russia is all but sure to, at least at times, start faring at least somewhat better than they have so far. Virtually every conflict has its advances and retreats; no side is immune to setbacks or missteps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Russia is making gains. Slow, incremental, ones but gains nonetheless. This is largely due to Russia shifting its strategy to the one that was always clearly the most practical one<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But again, the battle is not the war. Russian forces have already been badly degraded by Russia’s earlier pursuit of foolish and unrealistic strategies, and this damage cannot easily be undone. Staying the course means the long term<\/em> outlook is of Ukraine likely prevailing. Even in the best analysis, this thing is likely to be long and painful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally there is a major<\/em> difference between the situation of the West in the present time and the situation of it during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. More on that later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s pretty clear from the stories that Russia is now making territorial gains. This is not a surprise; revisit what I wrote as the conflict was just getting underway: Finally, another warning: the tide can turn. Odds are, in fact, tilted towards things not always coming out as much in Ukraine\u2019s favour as they have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5702,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}