[sgbuffett]

They have nuclear and mass weapons which are deadly but cruel. They can still use these.

However 1 month has passed and there is just mounting evidence of low morale, poor planning, incompetence and poor quality platforms and weapons. Whatever few towns they took are now being taken back by Ukranians. Due to supply issues if they don't start scaling down and turning back it will end in disaster.

They have the option of unleashing mass weapons to go for high death rate but if they do that there is no turning back and the consequences later will be crushing.

The Russians had no counter for relatively simple weapons like Stinger missles and javelins which were used successfully.  The Turkish drone left wrecks of vehicles, tanks etc and is  a cheap weapon. The Turkish build it only because US and Europe refused to sell them the high tech drones. Yet this drone with 2 simple infra red guided weapons just did hit after hit....and Russians had no answer.

Drone attacks on Russian vehicles.

Even very basically functionality of vehicles was crippled by weather and terrain. Some commentators say it js due to corruption  that led to poor maintenance.

While there is a lot of pro Russian propaganda that try to spin this war but if one looks at the situation, the Russian military operations are just an embarrassment. They are overrated beyond belief!

It is likely most of the previous wars they used mass weapons to devastate the opponent as the coverage by reporters is low. With the world watching, they may not resort to this type of weapons in Ukraine