Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about Russia finally acknowledging it.

Something we've been talking about on this channel since literally before it started.

And Russia has finally come to that conclusion and the defense minister has said as much. From the West, from Western commentators, there has been a push of

you know how long it's going to take this is taking too long it should be done faster

than that and it they are expecting unrealistic results.

And Ukraine recently said that they expect it to go until 2025 or 2026.

Russia now says that their military goals could be achieved with the consistent implementation of the measures in the action until 2025.

Russia is acknowledging now that the troops won't be home by Christmas, that they have

entered a protracted conflict that will take years.

Here's the thing.

This is a piecemeal dissemination of information.

They can achieve their military goals.

What are their goals again?

They don't know. Not really. This is the opposite of Mission Creep. It's where they had a

mission. It did not go according to plan and now they're trying to find a new one, rather

than acknowledge the obvious that they lost the war.

Normally Mission Creek goes the other way.

Go over there with a specific goal, something happens, and the goal expands.

This is the opposite. They have a force there that is now searching for a mission.

I do not believe that Russia thinks it can take the capital by 2025.

It's worth noting that right now Russian efforts

are really kind of focused on forced generation building up combat power because they don't have any.

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