Jayjay
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The problem is that they would need training to use western equipment. And there's a limited amount of old Soviet and Russian stock available. Even the Slovakian (or some other country's) MiGs are unusable, because they've been fitted with NATO avionics.Ukraine does have a bleak future indeed, but they can hold on and fight these fuckers to a standstill. According to your website, they’ve repelled four attacks today.
The key is supplies, and those may be running low. The US is supplying 40,000 artillery shells. Sheeesh! That’s enough for a few days at most! Not nearly enough. The west must ensure at least 10,000 shells a day. We also need to supply them with tanks, high altitude air defense, and even more MiGs.
But shells... those should be standard enough. They need a steady supply.
Not going to happen.This is a golden opportunity to draw the Russians into a quagmire, and bleed them white. We could utterly transform the strategic environment in our favor. Putin could fall, and real democratic reforms could take place in Russia. They could then consider joining NATO instead of fighting against it. China would not like that.
Russia has full propaganda hold on its people. They think they're on a righteous quest to rescue Russians from massacres by NATO and evil westerners. No amount of sanctions or even losses will change that. If Ukraine against all odds starts to push them back, or there is a stalemate, Putin still has the option to declare martial law and mobilize reservists. I think the Russian people would go along with that just as they have with everything else.