Russia thought they could win in three days

They did seem pretty confident of a quick war—as many invaders have.

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Russia is using old Soviet tanks

I guess many of them were destroyed.

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Russia is forced to press people into service against their will because their losses are unsustainable

That's fair, though when Hitler invaded the USSR, the Soviets might have press-ganged a few conscripts.

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Russian military is rebelling

"Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where the fuck is the ammunition?! Look at them, bitches"

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Russian people are anti-war and being oppressed and will rise up against Putin

I didn't see that much about it in r/Ukraine.

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Russia can barely hold any of the land it’s gained

They lost Kharkiv after losing that long line of tanks.

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If you genuinely think the narrative has been “Russian victory is inevitable” for three years, you are delusional

Putin seems to think so.

The hilarious thing is that unironically most of those are true.

The amazing Abrams.

The Abrams shits on russian tanks, correct!

https://defence24.com/armed-forces/land-forces/ukraines-armored-fleet-losses-and-current-inventory-analysis

Thus, 57 vehicles remain in the inventory of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, or 69.5% of the initial stock. This allows for the arming of one standard tank battalion of 31 vehicles. In addition, there are 26 tanks, enough to equip one understrength battalion. These tanks have demonstrated high resistance to hits, as well as the highest level of crew safety and survivability.

I must stress, these are very old versions of Abrams tanks, they are nothing like newer Abrams tanks even with Ukaraine's updates of them and yet... they still wipe the floor vs. any other main battle tank. You can also interestingly see how German tank design undermined itself by designing early leopards as somewhere between the abrams and russian tank design. Germany found out the hard way that russian style tank design is a dead end, russia has refused to learn this, the T-14 is just another M10 booker, light armor fascist fantasy that misunderstands the role of a main battle tank fundamentally.

If you genuinely think the narrative has been “Russian victory is inevitable” for three years, you are delusional

I am constantly reading english language news, there is no debate what narratives even allies of Ukraine accepted at the start of the war, Ukraine was treated as a noble but lost cause until Ukraine forced their allies into realizing Ukraine wasn't going to lose.

You are so bad at this narrative twisting, Ukraine never claimed it would be a "three day operation" to kick russia out, russia claimed they could take Ukraine in three days or so. Is this a thing leaders launching wars frequently do? Of course, but it is also true russia really never recovered any momentum after the initial three day operation failed and cost russia its decisive rotary wing capability....

Please try harder at your disinformation, it is boring how obvious it is that your feelings are hurt about this.