Originally Posted by
leroy jenkins
I think there was a lot more reason to expect putin to be motivated to negotiate before it was anounced russia just developed a kit to turn their tens of thousands of soviet era dumb bombs into pretty capable glide bombs with extended ranges and decent precision.
Often, single developements like this are over touted in terms of their game changing nature, but the sheer numbers involved in this really do change the mathmatics of this war, and those to come after it.
Time will tell. Russian soviet stuff is known to have a higher dud rate than ours, and these are all older stockpiled munitions.
Also, putin would probably say negotionas are rediculoud right up until he agrees to negotiate. There is no advantage or reason for him to say, hmm, maybe i'm getting close to considering negotiation.