>>15413
>>15413
>Ukraine is a huge country nigger, it has vast resources.
Ukraine is a large country going up against one of the world's top 3 military powers. You could describe it as having "vast resources" if it were fighting a small country, but Russia isn't a small country, it's not even a large or even huge country, it's a fuckhueg country.
>One of those resources are people they can shovel into the meat grinder.
Not really, even with conscription and press ganging people off the street they haven't even been able to recruit half of what Russia has through just volunteers. Ukraine's population is much smaller than Russia's, but more importantly they lack the effective state capacity to actually leverage their population even with conscription.
>they're backed by the pre-eminent military alliance on the planet.
Which mostly ran out of stuff to give them within the first year of the war. NATO is high tech, but lacks the production capacity to actually sustain Ukraine's war of attrition.
>The ruling clique has proven they hate Russians, so why would they care if Russians die in their defense?
I don't think the rulers of most countries care about their soldiers. They do tend to care about winning though, and Ukraine is not in a position to sacrifice their soldiers in a way that secures victory. So your prior point about Ukraine making it too costly for Russia to continue is stupid, since they
can't fucking do that. Expendable manpower is a resource, and even from the perspective of Ukraine's command, they are wasting it.