Ok, I’ll put it clearly: You’re wrongly interpreting the person you’re arguing with as saying something you disagree with. They never meant what you’re claiming they meant, and they’ve said as much.

When you keep trying to nail them to the wall, it comes off as being disingenuous, and just looking for a fight, even though you don’t really disagree with the OP on anything related to what they’ve posted in this thread.

You’re being downvoted because everyone else can see this, and think you’re trolling because you don’t seem to see it, even though it’s obvious to everyone else. In fact, it’s so obvious that people probably think it’s more likely that you’re trolling than that you genuinely don’t understand that you have no disagreement with the OP here.

In case you’re not trolling, I would like to point something out to you:

The up-/downvote ratio here probably reflects the fact that onlookers don’t believe you are arguing in good faith. It should act as a wake-up call to you, an indicator that you should re-consider what the other person is saying and ask yourself “Am I misunderstanding their point? Could this be interpreted differently?”.

You may find that you are disagreeing with them over something they never said or intended to say.

Besides the whole “russia will collapse in a couple months” rhetoric that’s been floating around the past couple years, it remains a fact that there is a limit to how long russia can keep spending the way it is.

They are operating on a war-time economy, which more or less by definition is not sustainable in the long term. Also, with the way russia works, and the fact that putins victory plan seems to be “project the image that we can keep going forever in order to break Ukraine/support for Ukraine”, I think it’s likely that if the russian economy breaks, it’s going to break quite suddenly and quite hard.

With that said, I don’t know if Russia can keep going for six more months or six more years (of course, I hope for the former). Regardless, they will break sooner or later. Until that time comes, all of us in Europe need to keep ramping up military production, support for Ukraine, and sanctions against russia.