I think the mission switched to demilitarizing the Ukraine, the US, the EuroPeeing Union and NAFO.
It looks like a success.
Looks like success? Good Lord. Ukraine is flattened and Russia won’t be stopping. There’s nothing to stop them. They’re not going to run out of bodies or oil money.
The US has barely touched their current stock. Most o the weapons systems given to Ukraine are out of inventory.
Russia has a lot of stuff. But it is crap quality, and not maintained. Do you think that’s improved in the past year.
They’ve lost about 1,700 tanks. That’s a staggering loss against what was a second class army. With decent leadership and tactics, the Russians should have taken Kiev in a week. They have neither. And THAT hasn’t improved in the past year.
Their primary general is little more than a thug. He executes his men with sledgehammers. His primary fighting force is the Russian version of The Dirty Dozen—a bunch of convicts.
Russia is morally corrupt, I’ll trained, and I’ll equipped. Their offensive is going to rip a generation of Russian men from their country. Even if they win, they will be ineffective and China will own Siberia in a decade.
When you hear stories about the west running out of Ammo because Ukraine, it so Karens are OK with giving more money to Gaytheon.
Russia was never a “Super Power”. They were the white guys pulling the levers of a CCCP Super power. With 160+ Million slaves you can do great things.
Putin had a path if Zelesky fled, but he didn’t. Putin now has a Quagmire and their are 20 “heroes of Ukraine” that will take Zeleskyyyyy’s place if Putin takes him out now.
The Harry Reid equivalent of Russia will soon tell Neo-Neocon Putin “Ukraine is Lost”, but this time it is True.
History repeats itself in many languages.