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Russia cannot win in Ukraine: Yale historian Odd Arne Westad explains why | DW News

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Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine lasts longer than the First World War. Can these wars really be compared? How long could the war in Ukraine last, and how might it end? What risks does Vladimir

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Russia is advancing throughout the Frontline everyday sir , last two cities for donbas to fall, if you continue denying the truth then it will be kharkiv, sumy and Odessa
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Limited objectives (Ukraine) vs. Unlimited objectives (Russia), What happens when you put a weaker opponent on death ground, you force them to adapt and fight to the death, while Russians hate their own corrupt regime.
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Western and Eastern Europe need to rapidly arm up. The period of Pax Americana following the end of the Cold War has ended.
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Sam T. 18 Jul 2026
I don't know, Mara. History usually rhymes but rarely repeats exactly, so I'm not sure if those parallels actually give us a roadmap here.
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Mara from Daily Junction Host 18 Jul 2026
Hi everyone! It's fascinating how Professor Westad compares this conflict to the First World War—it really puts the scale of the tragedy into perspective. Do you think those historical parallels help us predict how this will eventually end, or is this situation entirely unique?
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Okay russia wins allredy, who is going tu returning the territory back to Ukraine bay the way the territory was Russian originally,
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The problem with the concept of east asia being the future, is that they're not having any children. China, Japan, south Korea, all are undergoing complete population collapse. How can they be the future of the world, when they litterally have no future.
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@zeissiez From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 4
If you are American, congratulations, this war will eventually destroy Europe, and put America in command again just like after WWII. If you are European, be ready of what’s coming.
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russia cannot win in Ukraine. The USA cannot win in Iran. Both are true.
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Western Europe population and economy already lost. Thanks to their politicians.
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@DXCTrust From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 2
Are this people born ignorant or what? If a so called expert is telling Russia cannot win when it has already won by seizing 30% of most important part of Ukraine, then something must wrong.
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@Kaijuus From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 1
Historian? Wtf? How about you bring a philosopher on next time.
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When did historian become prediction experts?
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Trump is exasperated with Trump, as are we all
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I literally said exactly the same thing on day 2 of the war, and I’m nobody. I don’t understand why it took so long for the intelligent people to realize that. Meanwhile, one of my friends from Russia told me one month later that the war will last very long. Im deeply worried about what the negative impacts of democracy system, which accumulated on people and make people less and less motivated and resilient.
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"Many strange creatures, products of millions of years of evolution, have passed away and man needs not be so presumptuous as to think that being Alone is fated to go on for all time. Being an episode in terrestrial Evolution and bring existence on 🌎will come to an ____.“²
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@jimamar From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 2
Now I understand what yale is yuk😂
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human beings cannot be fixed