(18-03-2022, 12:08 PM)guffaw Wrote: It is 4th week 21st day and they are not progressing. They planned a swift occupation.
Well, in just 21 days, they now control of territory the size of the United Kingdom & demoted the
3rd largest armed forces in Europe to nothing more than guerrilla fighters.
Plus these achievements:
1. Neutralised Ukrainian airforce (Ukr pleading for jets from Poland)
2. Neutralised Ukrainian air defences (Ukr pleading for S300 from Slovakia)
3. Neutralised Ukrainian navy (Ukr dont even bother to plead for donated ships)
4. Neutralised Ukrainian communications, command & control (Ukr having to use Nato's c&c systems)
5. Forced the Ukrainian neo Nazi forces to retreat to cities (Neo Nazi forces cowardly resorted to human shields)
6. Took control of at least 2 nuclear power plants & hydroelectric plants
5. Liberated Donbass where 4 million souls were living under neoNazi bombardment since 2014
6. On the verge of liberating Mariupol, the strategically most-important city in Ukraine
7. Besieging Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv, forcing the Ukr government to relocate to the western part
8. Turned Ukraine into landlocked country & denied access to the Sea of Azov
9. Prevented Nato from intervening (NATO ok! Not some rag tags!)
10. Destroyed Nato training bases.......etc etc etc
AND, all these are done with just
half the strength of Ukraine's army
Its a failure to you because the West says so by their reckless shock & awe standards
But in my book, its not failure. Its being cautious of avoiding excessive loss of civilian lives & infrastructure.