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They've been trying for ~13months already and haven't done so, why do you think they could do it now? Especially after losing 150,000+ soldiers (dead and/or wounded), and thousands of tanks and other armored vehicles? They've lost tens of thousands of troops and dozens/hundreds of vehicles just trying to take one town since August (Bakhmut).

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They could push more soldiers and machines to war, make a zerg-rush on Ukraine with everything they have, going in an all-out war. Going by the known numbers, Russia's army should have/had(?) 4-5 times the size of Ukraine's army, or something like that.

Of course, this would be very expensive to bring back their army from all around the world. They would lose all strategic positions they have, and would probably still suffer great loses... But they could (maybe) conquer that single country, or relevant parts of it.

Just, would it be worth?

Fog of war. You can't know what is happening. The only numbers I believe is the additional cost in $ and € the western taxpayer is burdened with. Because that is guaranteed.

Be as precise as possible, exactly what number of £€$ do you believe the western taxpayers are burdened with?

Time to look up some other numbers, like 9970 photo documented destroyed and captured pieces of russian equipment.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum...

This is the least foggy war of all time. There is a constant barrage of tiktok and telegram videos of exactly what is going on in this war. Every video is geolocated to show where battles are taking place. We don't know what is going to happen, but we pretty well know what is happening.

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