How should Christians view the Ukraine/Russia situation?

[Nehemiah6]

My prediction is that the Ukrainian troops in Kursk oblast will be annihilated / forced to retreat within next week.

That has happened at other locations also, and Ukrainian troops have had to flee (or get wiped out). The Western media are compelled to tell us that Russia is being beaten by Ukraine, when the opposite is the case (even though US and UK troops are in Ukraine illegally, since these countries are not at war with Russia).

 

[Inquisitor]

There's this false notion that a nation wins in a war.
Nobody wins a war....one side just loses less...maybe.

War is extremely expensive. A tank $5 million is destroyed by shooting $100,000 rockets at it.
That's equivalent to a mansion in NY City being destroyed by throwing brand new Corvettes at it.

War is devastating to generations. The volume of people who die, become maimed, and psychologically damaged to the point of no longer productive is high and is more than just the soldiers who fight. Just today a shopping mall was destroyed in Ukraine. People were there simply getting bread and supplies just to be gone forever out of their families lives. The survivors seeing horrific sights of mangled bodies...including children. (Very much unlike what Palestinians show manufactured videos of)

War stops when it becomes too expensive to continue fighting....
And in this case....Ukraine can't afford to ever stop. Russia is the sole determining decider of when this war stops. When will Putin decide to stop?
If history is any clue....when the RF is complely bankrupt and is broken again. They will fight until they literally can't buy chewing gum.

With the sanctions in place...this is a likely scenario. Ukraine will have "won". But the farmlands will be full of landmines, toxic waste spills, and everything of any value (including bathroom fixtures) will be gone....the cities are rubble.

Is that winning?

It's going to be 30-40 years for the place to return to some sort of "normal"....if ever.

England and the US lost less men in World War 2 than Ukraine has already lost.

Ukraine will pay a very heavy price for resisting the Russian aggression.

Ukraine has already lost the vast majority of men from the 25-50 year age bracket.
Add to that an enormous number of men under the age of 25 who were volunteers.

Anyone care to calculate how many widows and fatherless children there will be
at the end of this conflict?

How does a country function without a workforce?

 

[JohnDB]

My prediction is that the Ukrainian troops in Kursk oblast will be annihilated / forced to retreat within next week.

Well, no matter what it creates a dilemma for Russia....not just a problem but a true dilemma. And no matter the outcome Ukraine has won this round.

The troops available to push Ukraine out of Russia are extremely green and not well equipped. Or completely untrained for this and again not well equipped. Considering one set of reinforcements were obliterated on the way to the fight....not good for Russia no matter what. Send more green troops unequipped? Send seasoned troops from the front lines and lose gains?

Then there's the matter of the gaping hole in their front lines that allowed 2 battalions to get through with that much equipment unchallenged.

So....this means that Russia needs to pull troops and equipment from the front lines to keep home from getting too liberated (some Russians are glad to see Ukraine taking over their village despite no longer having electricity....the Ukranians shut down the power plant)

This is exactly what asymmetrical warfare looks like....where Ukraine is not likely to abandon their chunk of Russia until they have to...they never planned on keeping it either. UKRAINIANS HAVE AN EXIT STRATEGY. They are causing dilemmas for Russia that Russia cannot afford to fix.