Yankees might just not accept that Ukraine lost. The maps will stay the same, they'll start wearing "Slava Ukraini" shirts, and they'll be calling Russia "East Ukraine" until 2065

They'll move onto supporting a genocide in Venezuela

They are already laying the foundation for their own Stab-in-the-back myth

Blame Trump, that's what they've been doing. "Ukraine was going to build its own weapons but because of Trump they'll have to sign a deal with Russia"

I've thought about it a lot, and I'm almost confident enough to try to make a prediction. Keep in mind, I'm not a guy you should take predictions from.

In the liberal worldview, Ukraine doesn't actually exist. Like so many other things in the liberal (as in, pro-capitalism) mind, things like Ukraine occupy the same network of hollow symbols and concepts that only gets invoked to Argue about and obsess over.

Similar symbols in these networks are undefinable and hollow concepts like "freedom" "liberty" "freedom of speech" and so on.

It's not a war to them. Not really, it's a spectacle to observe, with narratives and thunderous rhetoric of "victory" and "bravery" and the best thing about the symbolic Ukraine is, that's all it requires of you. Watching it, like a TV show and gush over your favourite characters like zelinski, putin or Ivana Jagoff.

Even if the actual, real life Ukraine were to fall, it wouldn't register as a defeat, because that's incompatible with the symbol of Ukraine and the virtues assigned to it.

"Ukraine" if totally defeated, would still exist as a symbol of bravery and victory to these delusional libs, even as the surviving nazi mercenaries go amok and start terrorcampaigns all over europe as revenge for getting "stabbed in the back."

Liberals will simply concoct a scenario where Ukraine losing is better than winning because of integrity or valor or some other intangible concept. Liberals are champs at losing so they'll just move on to the next thing they can clutch pearls about.

I'm sure they'll find a way to blame leftists on Twitter

They will go to brunch and forget all about it. On the rare occasion they remember it they will just say something rascist then go back to brunch

USA does a decades-long covert operation pushing nazis leading up to a coup with Victoria Nuland's hand-picked officials and the new regime begins ethnic cleansings: good and necessary

Russia crosses the magic sovereignty line in response: unforgiveable criminal behavior by the troglodytes which cannot be allowed, get me FIFA on the phone

(meanwhile the USA's colonial outpost blockades and bombs starving Palestinians in a livestreamed genocide)

I think liberals in the US are just gonna forget/ move onto caring about another thing, most already have. You barely see Ukraine stuff anymore compared to a few years ago. In Europe idk, I imagine they might actually have to confront?

The American libs forgot about it, the Euro libs are going to sacrifice their social democracy for military spending and fascism against an imaginary threat cooked up by the military industrial complex.

There are americans who, to this day, maintain that the US did not lose the Vietnam War.

Ol' Reliable - the stabbed in the back myth.

"Ukraine totally coulda won if Jews/Commies/Russian speaking Ukrainians/Hamas hadn't undermined the war effort with their scheming."

I'm sorry, have you not seen how much materiel (cw: lib) Ukraine has destroyed lately? Russia's economy is in free fall, their defeat is inevitable.

Seriously, though, it's gonna be denial til the collective amnesia kicks in just in time for the war with Venezuela to kick off.

The second the war ends Europeans will go back to buying Russian gas and shit.

It will be so embarrassing for liberals

They've invested everything on the cope Ukraine will win

They'll blame Trump and move on

Same thing as when Biden pulled out of Afghanistan - a confused, wounded lashing out that lasts for weeks, then is forgotten entirely by the next news cycle.

Free Ukraine! 🇺🇦

Side note I was talking with a rad lib who thinks they're a leftist recently and Ukraine was a touchier subject than even the DPRK.

Use it to argue for massive militarization.

I'm wondering if the Russian approach will be to freeze the conflict, keeping it alive with a minimal ongoing investment. The war has been a really useful wedge for driving Europe and USA apart, and European rearmament is a pipe dream that can only turn into a boondoggle. That will drive libs crazy, of course - even a definitive Ukrainian loss would be some closure, and something they could whine about.

Well, heres the "german" chancellor

⚡️ 🇩🇪 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: "If Ukraine falls, Putin will never stop" "We must take 1938 as a historical example". "We should have realized this in 2014; if Ukraine falls, Putin will never stop". "In, it was not enough for (Hitler) to get the Sudeten region; similarly, Putin will not stop". "Those who think he will be satisfied with this should carefully analyze his strategy, documents, and speeches". "Putin's goal is to radically change the borders in Europe; he wants to restore the Soviet borders and establish the Soviet Union". ‏

So, not good

They'll set up an imaginative construct at how Ukraine would have Crimea and Donbas back if only Biden stayed in the general instead of .

"Uh aktually, PUTLER wants to completely genocide Ukrainians from existence and erase Ukraine from our collective memories, so the fact that Ukraine still exists in our hearts means PUTLER can never win."

By coping poorly and learning absolutely nothing

MIC the EU and prepare for WW3 in 2040 with "modern" weapons (that you have no rare earths for) now that you've thrown away all the cold war stuff in the trash pile that is .

It will be one part denial mixed with one part projection and it will all be ridiculous nonsense with only a whiff of factual basis behind it

I keep being told Russia is collapsing by these people. Any day now, lol.

German rearmament

I feel like they just won’t accept it lol

People I meet entirely forgot about Ukraine, if anything Russia pops up it's usually a disagreement with Putin and the state now rather than being anti-warism.

Stabbed in back myth

They've been laying the groundwork with the 'agent Kraznov shit', echoing the original myth blaming commies at home for the defeat(how could it be possible the brave ukranians/germans lost? huh, logistics and supply what's that? more marxist bullshit I bet)

The military industrial complex will need another conflict to dump ~$80b/yr worth of weapons. The administration, no matter if it's D or R, will find another regional conflict to meddle in (or start a new one).

When the new conflict gets rolling, the propaganda machine will spin up and the libs will be mindlessly repeating whatever causus beli that the executive has invented.

Ukraine will be old news. Reconstruction is boring, it does not drive clicks. No one will pay attention. When is the last time you heard a news story about Iraq?

Probably by coping with Vietnam style "but actually look at the K/DR" (which will also be laughably wrong)

Ukraine cannot fail, it can only be failed. /s

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These brutish Afghan savages devious Asiatic Slavs failed to win the war in Afghanistan Ukraine despite us doing literally everything possible for them. I can't believe we ever considered these Arabs human considered these Slavs honorary whites. It didn't help that we were stabbed in the back by the Democrats Donald Trump who undermined all of America's efforts to win the war for them. This entire war was a mistake unlike the next one At least we didn't get any American troops killed so we are ready we fight in our next good war against China Russia China.

"America just isn't ready for a woman president"

Probably a When Prophecy Fails scenario, where they construe that the peace deal is actually a Ukrainian victory, and that

We can see this in the before/after analysis of Bakhmut, Pokrovsk, etc.

Probably about how they reacted when Putin took Kiev in three days.

Oh, wait...