if you still support russia's leaders deciding on this action in anyway you are a hardcore slurper and overdosing on cope. i didn't think ukraine had a chance at the onset but no one outside of russians could really understand how incompetent their military was and still is (+ukraine has actual gear and training now).
not only did russia violate the minsk3 agreements from the 2014 conflict they backstabbed ukraine by invading even then after ukraine surrendered it's nuclear arsenal in exchange for a guarantee of sovereignty. big_ass speculating like nato is aggressively expanding to harass russia when countries are actively seeking to join (at expense of their own gdp) because russia bullies it's neighbors is hilarious
imagine having your allies being invaded while you get creamed in ukraine and the big bad guy USA has to broker a peace to save them because your political and military power is bankrupt
If we want to talk about military failures we should speak about the US's complete failure in Syria (weren't you there) and Russia's success.
For as much as Russia has "lost", I truly don't see how the US hasn't lost more. There is even greater division in the Global South in regards to multi-polarity. Western stocks are severely depleted in a world state where the US has no manufacturing prowess; Western Europe is being forcibly de-industralized due to an energy crunch. Russia is not vanquished or anything of the sort; their result will be a puppet to China.
You're just moral posturing: NATO promised to not extend NATO membership to Soviet Bloc countries. The AFU has been shelling Donbass civilians for years with their Banderite Nazi force. The Biden's have their slush fund in the country.
big_ass speculating like nato is aggressively expanding to harass russia when countries are actively seeking to join (at expense of their own gdp) because russia bullies it's neighbors is hilarious
The idea that this is exclusive to Russia is hilarious; didn't Ukraine try to play buddy buddy with Russia in 2014 and get CIA couped? This is just infantile to say things like this.
This is not realpolitik: these made-up countries with no real power don't get to drop the NAP when they decide they want to place NATO missile systems on their border.
tbc we've failed plenty on objectives and operational doctrine you're just making a strawman to distract from russia's military imploding and being embarrassed in front of the world
The Russian military doctrine has a primacy on missile technology; the idea that Ukraine just place whatever early-warning radar, ballistic missile defense, and offensive structures for quicker strike on key Russia fortifications, and it's just no big deal.