On January 5, 2025, Ukraine launched its second offensive into Russia's Kursk region, underscoring its commitment to maintaining pressure on Moscow.

It's been almost 10 days now in those 10 days Ukraine lost 3 cities and western media claims it's to early to make conclusions

Unlike the first offensive, this renewed effort reflects a more calculated approach, combining long-range missile strikes targeting Russian logistics with precise company-level ground assaults aimed at capturing key areas while minimizing direct confrontations with heavily fortified Russian positions.

What are they smoking the offensive was 7 hours long and there wasn't any new Ukrainian attacks in almost 10 days. A fricking GIGA CALCULATION.

The offensive is centered in the Sudzha region, where Ukrainian forces are attempting to break through Russian defenses and advance deeper into Kursk Oblast. Locations such as Berdin, Leonidovo, and Bolshoye Soldatskoye have become focal points of intense fighting as Ukraine strives to establish a stronger foothold in the region.

They claiming fighting is happening where I put yellow circle

While the Kursk region holds symbolic significance, particularly as a demonstration of Ukraine's ability to contest Russian territory, its economic value is relatively modest. Kursk plays a role in Russia's agricultural production and serves as a gas transit hub, but its contributions are modest compared to the more pivotal importance of the Donbas. The Donbas has long been Ukraine's industrial heartland, accounting for a substantial share of the country's mining, steel production, and manufacturing output. Control over the region is crucial for Ukraine's post-war reconstruction and long-term economic stability. This also applies to the land bridge connecting the Donbas and Crimea, which is not only vital for military logistics but also spans some of the most fertile agricultural land in Ukraine.

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The Kursk offensive also highlights the region's limited strategic value in potential negotiations. Assuming that Ukraine is able to retain this territory in the medium term, Kursk itself does not hold much weight in the broader dynamics of peace talks or territorial disputes. Unlike areas such as Donbas or Zaporizhzhia, which are rich in resources and crucial to both countries' long-term interests, Kursk is primarily an agricultural region with some logistical importance. These factors make it far less consequential in shaping the terms of any future settlement.

He should assume he ain't r-slur, the chances of him not being an r-slur is as good as Ukraine will hold it and being able to trade Kursk oblast territory.

The idea of using Kursk as a bargaining chip is complicated by the fact that its capture does not fundamentally alter the balance of power. Russia's priorities remain firmly fixed on consolidating control over the Donbas and other regions critical to its political objectives of establishing a buffer between itself and NATO. The loss of territory in Kursk does not pose a significant threat to Russia's war effort or its broader aims, especially since the Kremlin remains confident that it will be able to reclaim the lost territory in due course. This makes it easier for Moscow to dismiss Ukrainian gains in Kursk during negotiations, as the region and Kyiv's limited success lack the kind of leverage needed to force meaningful concessions.

No way.

The Kursk offensive also carries profound psychological and political implications, both within Ukraine and on the international stage. Domestically, the operations serve as a morale booster. The sight of Ukrainian forces advancing into Russian territory symbolizes defiance and resilience, offering a powerful counter-narrative to Russia's portrayal of dominance. For a population enduring the hardships of war, the incursions provide a sense of hope and vindication.

He basically saying Ukrainians are r-slurs that blindly believing they are advancing in Russia just no proofs for almost 10 days but just 3 cities lost

For Ukraine, the real question moving forward is whether the sacrifices made in Kursk will pay off in the end, or if the focus should shift back to defending the heart of the country. The Kursk offensive remains a powerful symbol of Ukraine's determination, but the true test will be how they navigate the difficult road ahead and whether Kyiv can turn these bold moves into lasting strategic gains.

Ukraine maybe lost over 60% territory in controlled in Kursk oblast it's about to turn it into lasting strategic gains

Those are the guys who were telling just wait during spring counteroffensive

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I CANT PUT DOWN THE CUP

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Techxicans... or something like that.

We can see this in the fact that all the money in the US is flowing upward instead of through the economy. Resources are being snatched to the top at rates faster than they are being generated every year. The US being a monopoly is a problem because a monopoly does not set the prices based on what the ideal supply and demand of a product is, but instead based on what's the maximum value that can be extracted from the consumer because he has nowhere else to go as a second option.

This is why we can see the Chinese so easily manage to provide products that compete with American products at such cheap prices, because the gap between the actual price set by American monopolies and the actual price at which the product could have been sold is so huge that you could have another country sell the same product at half to one tenth the price and still make a profit high enough to keep investing in the industry.

Another area where the US is failing is in the housing industry. When you take a house and resell it for 2-10x the price within a year or two you aren't actually creating anything that is flowing through the economy or improving the economy. You are just artificially increasing scarcity of an already limited product that does not result in any net positive for the economy. We have already seen examples of this play out historically, such as when land in Japan had reached a price point as high as entire cities or states in the US.

The US is losing now because even their exclusivity in the cutting edge market is being taken over by the Chinese and other specialized economies. The iphone lost to the android phone. Samsung lost to Chinese phones. The Tesla lost to Chinese electric vehicles. US robots lost to Japanese robots and South Korean automation. On all fronts there is some country out there that is now capable of producing the product that the US is trying to make, but at better prices.

The price inflation can especially be seen in the US tech market, as the newest generation of technologies such as robot dogs or humanoid robots are being sold at prices that the average middle class individual in the US wouldn't be able to afford for years to come. Those are prices that are only possible when a company has a complete monopoly on the market.

As of now the only thing that the US is leading in is spaceships and AI. Of these two only AI is truly relevant as spaceships would take decades to create something truly marketable that the economy can grow off of. AI on the other hand is revolutionizing global industries, however, China is just 2 years behind the US at most when it comes to AI. So it is not like the US can completely monopolize the AI industry like they did industries in the past.

The US has failed to create a successful additional layer to their complex economy, resulting in their economy stalling and American wealth aggregating at the top. The quality of life of the average American isn't improving anymore, as he is stuck in the same house with the same prices, and the only thing that changes is that his toothbrush gets an upgrade every 5 years. On the other hand the billionaire classes are hoarding far more wealth than any of them could spend, with the majority of top US companies being overinflated, which is visible in the fact that these companies today are only growing during times of global crisis, when they seem like the safest investment, and when these companies can buy up even more resources cheap from all the bankruptcies taking place around them. Which again doesn't actually add anything to the economy.

From 2023-2024 US GDP grew from 27.36 trillion USD to just under 29 trillion USD. Meanwhile in the same year, US billionaire wealth grew by 2 Trillion USD. This is very clearly not a sustainable system, where more wealth is accumulating at the top than is being generated through the entire economy in a year. The west has pretty much lost the plot, and the US economy has become completely captured by a few US companies that have completely monopolized the system. To the point where wage growth may not even be possible anymore without the President passing in into law.

All of these events are markers of an inefficient system that is collapsing in on itself due to the accumulated rot within it. For an economy to succeed there is a certain amount of money that needs to flow through it. For an economy to succeed there needs to be a certain number of businesses to keep alive healthy competition. On both fronts the US is failing today.

Today, every single major corporation in the US is too big to fail. None of them can be permitted to go down even when their products are getting worse or they have lost the ability to compete in the global market. Apple itself is overpriced in terms of how much of the global market it has captured and how much of the market is captured by other global companies with far lower net worth. If the only way a US company can compete with another global company in the same market is when they have 10x the resources, then the US company is clearly inefficient in the extreme.

Today, Samsung holds nearly as much of the global mobile market share as Apple, while having 7.1% of the market cap that Apple does. Apple is nearly 14x the net worth of Samsung yet they are competing on almost equal footing. If this is not inefficiency in a system then what is?

Today, Tesla and BYD electric vehicle sales in the market are at nearly equal footing, while BYD is 7.7% the market capitalization of Tesla. Tesla is worth 13x more today while having the same share of the global market sales as BYD. Again inefficiencies become apparent. On the global market, the US companies can only win by being monopolies based on the current prices that they are selling their products at and the current valuation of these companies. The moment any other major country reaches near parity in technological capabilities, it becomes well positioned to take down the US company.

This is why China is such a threat to the US economy. For the Chinese market is able to supply products at prices similar to Samsung, but with the mass scale advantage of a billion+ people economy. The Chinese have already surpassed the US in PPP GDP terms, being 10 trillion USD higher than the US there. This places China in a position to win over the European Market and any other market in the world. Limiting US sales to the US market. Which is to the disadvantage of American companies, as the US market alone is not big enough to grow these companies and sustain them indefinitely.

Conclusion:

The US is slowed down by the amount of monopolization of its industries that has taken place and the unwillingness of American oligarchs to let money flow through the economy, along with creating the equivalent of the broken window fallacy, by overcharging for products far above their cost of production would necessitate. China on the other hand has for all intents and purposes already surpassed the US and it is simply the motions of time that are having it appear to still be catching up.

The US can keep bringing in more immigrants to keep itself afloat, but the overall US IQ is going to keep dropping decade by decade as the US birth rates are below replacement, and the quality of immigrants keeps dropping decade on decade until the present year, where the average immigrant moving to the US is only 8 IQ points smarter than the average American and 5 IQ points smarter than the global average.