regardless of any amount of resources given to Ukraine, The length of time Russia has been militarily unable to successfully campaign against one of the weakest European countries was astonishing and extremely enlightening as to the state of their military readiness.

before Russia exposed itself, this sort of matchup very much seemed like if the US decided to invade El Salvador, made very little progress for 3 years, and then lost territory to El Salvador(assuming we bordered el Salvador).

it would seem absurd until all of the weaknesses and false pretenses of Russian military power were exposed.

now it turns out Europe had a paper tiger for 40 years that world leaders were wrongly extolling the military virtues and dangers of.

it’s not to say that Russia is harmless, because they’re willing to sacrifice millions of soldiers, but they simply do not pose the legacy world-power conquering danger that everybody assumed they did for over a generation.

and to belabor the point, they are failing against a single, relatively and especially at the time, unprepared and militarily weak country the Russia had literally signed a treaty not to invade.