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Trump 'Distances' US from Ukraine as Russia Smashes AFU's Defenses on Donetsk Front
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You're right, it's hard to say how much further they can push it. I do think there is also psychological factor of the conscripts to consider as well. People who wanted to fight signed up at the start of the war. These people are now exhausted and demoralized, and new people did not want to fight in the first place. There needs to be a motivated core to hold discipline, and eventually there comes an inflection point where there are just not enough people who are willing to keep fighting. The big question is when that point comes.
This was an interesting listen by the way. Martyanov suggests that the main reason Russian army is holding back is because they do not want to deal with hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war, so instead they're just choosing to do attrition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9asEGaHzlvk
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