Comment by greedo

How anyone can look at how the war is going in Ukraine and think that it's any measure of success for Russia is simply not basing this in reality. Russia has already been decisively defeated in Ukraine. Their success is taking Mariupol is like if the US invaded Tijuana and then got stopped on the way to Ensenada. And what Donbas encirclement? The Russians "started" trying to encircle the Donbas in February. They've had no fundamental improvement in their position in the region since then, in fact, their facing their own issues with their defeat in Kharkiv.