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> Ukraine's incursion into Kursk does not realistically threaten the long-term integrity and security of Russia

The US is claiming 700,000+ Russian killed and wounded so far. Moscow obviously think something here is a threat to the long term integrity and security of Russia. That is serious commitment.

Unless the US is lying. I hope they are, to be honest. Mountains of skulls are fun in D&D but not in real wars.

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Neither the commitment nor the losses (and, for the sake of this issue, I'll take the US numbers as realistic) imply that Russia will lose Kursk indefinitely. Even if Ukraine could somehow hold on to it, I don't think it is realistic to think that any party would hold up a resolution of this conflict in an almost-certainly futile attempt to force Russia to cede any territory that it legitimately held prior to its incursions into Ukraine.

I share your feelings about the entirely avoidable horror of it all.

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