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Russia has knocked out over a dozen Patriot missile batteries. Russian missiles have free reign over all Ukrainian skies without any anti-air defense. You are in a deluded world. Russia is not taking "massive losses" that's made up fake cope from Western Media.
xD okay, you've convinved me NATO lost and so did the west, I'm moving to Russia or NK. Maybe Belarus, It's hard to pick since the quality of life is so much worse in all of those countries than almost the entire west, but I can't live in a loser country like this anymore.
Do you live in one of these beautiful countries?
Honestly, I would rather live in North Korea or Russia than in this slowly crumbling empire shithole founded on genocide, slavery, eugenics, and the perfecting of exploitation, surrounded by the most pasty, pathetic, and propagandized motherfuckers the world has ever known, which you are testament to seeing as you thought Ukraine was winning this, lol. Of course I would have to give up a lot of treats to live in NK, but the treats here are mostly garbage anyway, and at least I'd have an actual sense of community and not have to exist as an atomized drone in a rotting wasteland of billboards, fast"food" franchises and traffic-jammed SUVs from horizon to horizon. Moving to Russia would probably feel like a mostly lateral shift in QoL, but it must be nice to live in a country with a rich history of killing nazis instead of saving, funding, idolizing, and actually you know, being nazis.
Whatever though. It sure was fun watching @Z_Poster365@hexbear.net completely fucking school you on basic shit your coping ass kept pathetically trying to deny.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean once again I never said Ukraine was winning, why do you guys keep making things up?
But Z_Poster did convince me that NATO lost, so you know you guys win. I'm convinced!
You probably thought Ukraine was winning for 2 years, listening to your western sources, and now are totally confused why everyone now admits Russia has won, even your own sources.
Don't you ever question why the entire war turned upside down in an instant and people with shovels somehow defeated NATO?