[rhubinak]

> And then there’s the reality that Kursk has only played into the Russian’s hands in many different ways, including, that it split already inferior forces in an attrition war and on the geopolitical level where it caused Chinese caution and reluctance about the whole Russian operation to essentially immediately fall away due to the insanity and recklessness if the Kursk operation, which only has gotten more solidified due to the atrocities against civilians committed by the Ukrainians.

Some sources please (ideally not Russian propaganda, but I would be asking for too much, would I?). I haven't noticed any change in Chinese stance after Kursk incursion. The operation has been a gambit by the Ukraine to divide the attention of weary Russian occupants.

> atrocities against civilians committed by the Ukrainians.

War is hell and everything, but Ukrainians seem to be much more precise when trying to achieve their goals. Did you not notice Russian army targeting schools and hospitals? Bucha massacre?

> You appear to see things in a very narrow scope that is predominated by propagandistic perspectives

As you do.

> If land invasion were some kind of cause for launching nukes, then the wholesale invasion and infiltration by Mexico and its cartels that have killed around 1M Americans would have been cause to, e.g., nuke southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

Are you really comparing military operation to US opioid epidemic?

> Russia is intentionally going it slow

Sources? Russia planned a 2 day special operation. It seems that Ukrainians have been doing most of the grinding, not the other way around.

> … and life on earth ends because of recklessness of narcissistic psychopaths with god-complexes.

Like Putin, Trump and their supporters (yeah, looking at you).