So, you are saying, Ukraine is kicking the butt of Russians with a handful of cannons and paper thin armored trucks. Okay.
Now imagine when the latest tranche of weapons is deployed. Britain is sending its Challenger heavy tanks to Ukraine. The latest tranche of American aid was unveiled Thursday, including a brigade's worth of armored Stryker vehicles, and was valued at $2.5 billion -- following a $3 billion package with Bradley Fighting Vehicles on Jan. 6. Defense leaders from about 50 countries huddled at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Friday to discuss the aid and the path forward. If Germany finally commits supplying Leopards, it could be tough going for the Russians. If they don't... Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday that his country may eventually go rogue and send its Leopard tanks to Kyiv without German approval.
TB is an equal opportunity disease and so the longer Russians remain there the more it spread among their troops, another good reason Russians should withdraw, while they can. Meanwhile, the west is working on drugs that will address the current drug resistant strain in Ukraine. It's a stretch, but my guess is that the Russians will be the last to get the new drug and when TB travels back to Russia with its wounded troops, the people won't be very happy.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00772-6/fulltext
The longer the war goes on the weaker Russia becomes. Soon it will have to decide to drain its last remaining from line troops that are facing off against NATO nations. Not a good prospect. Meanwhile, China looks hungrily at the virtually defenseless oil fields across the border from China in land now largely occupied by Chinese immigrants.
Finland is hungrily eying territory that once belonged to it and was seized in the past. Poland has similar claims to land seized by Russia after WW2. And of course, let's not forget some of Russia's southern neighbors.
Putin screwed up. Everyone knows it. The only question remains is will Putin survive his colossal screw up or is this the end for him.
