Jiang claims that Russia does not need to accept the twenty-point peace proposal because it currently dominates the battlefield in Ukraine.
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Battlefield Dominance
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Jiang says NATO reinforcements on the existing Ukrainian front would amount to suicidal attrition because Russia already has battlefield dominance and can massacre small European deployments without changing the strategic balance.
Jiang says the war is already lost for Ukraine because Russia has battlefield dominance, disciplined soldiers, high morale, and an opponent suffering severe desertion.
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"...to anything right now, because Russia dominates militarily. Russia has the battlefield dominance. And also, like, you have to look at it from a..."
"...front lines are so huge so vast and the russians have battlefield dominance so we've sent in 10 000 troops they all get massacred..."
"...say, the war is lost. Russia has been able to establish battlefield dominance. That's air superiority. Its soldiers are extremely well -disciplined. They have..."
"...to the russian invasion of ukraine you know russia has complete battlefield dominance in ukraine this war in ukraine is essentially lost and so..."
"...in ukraine look the reality is that in ukraine russians have battlefield dominance meaning that uh you know they control the skies of their..."
"...lines of of um ukraine the um where you have a battlefield dominance okay put them in a war nutrition exactly exactly that's what..."
"...be a very slow methodical Advance but the Russians have complete Battlefield dominance and what this means is that the Europeans will need to..."
"...if you just analyze the military situation in Ukraine, Russia has battlefield dominance because it controls artillery, it has air supremacy, and it has..."
"...as long as possible, because he's winning the war. He has battlefield dominance. They're fighting the war on his terms. So what he wants..."
"...warfare and the result of this is that Russia now has battlefield dominance it basically controls most of eastern Ukraine the Donbas region and..."
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