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The Spanish Civil War was a more lopsided contest than the Russian-Ukraine war. The nationalists started off controlling something like a third of Spain, within about a year controlling half of Spain, and then making steady progress in controlling the remainder over the next two years.

Ukraine is in a bad way now. But they're much better positioned than Republican Spain was at maybe any time during that conflict. Russia at its maximum controlled ~27% of Ukrainian territory (this includes Crimea and parts of Donetsk occupied since 2014), reduced to ~18% after Ukrainian counterattacks. Since then Russia has gained somewhere on the order of a few hundred square miles, really not much in such a large country. The news has been bad for Ukraine for a while but they are not ceding large chunks of ground and Russia is paying heavily for their small advances.

[dabigv13]

The Spanish Civil War was a more lopsided contest than the Russian-Ukraine war. The nationalists started off controlling something like a third of Spain, within about a year controlling half of Spain, and then making steady progress in controlling the remainder over the next two years.

Ukraine is in a bad way now. But they're much better positioned than Republican Spain was at maybe any time during that conflict. Russia at its maximum controlled ~27% of Ukrainian territory (this includes Crimea and parts of Donetsk occupied since 2014), reduced to ~18% after Ukrainian counterattacks. Since then Russia has gained somewhere on the order of a few hundred square miles, really not much in such a large country. The news has been bad for Ukraine for a while but they are not ceding large chunks of ground and Russia is paying heavily for their small advances.