Baldrick,

You are talking about Russia's first illegal invasion of Crimea and Donbas after his puppet was ousted by a popular uprising.

Russians are dying at a far higher rate than Ukrainians to the point that they are running out of men in the South and have extended mobilisation to the end of the war. Russia has had to evacuate all its ships from Crimea as they can't protect them.

Russia couldn't beat Poland let alone the US or Nato. China gets most of its oil and resources overseas and a blockade of China would throw it into chaos in weeks. China would also lose a naval war around Taiwan especially as the US is giving Taiwan hundreds of anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft defenses.

Russia is losing this war.

The Woke West is the Conservative's East best ally by sheer stupidity alone. Just think of a fit, intelligent Chinese vs some tattooed, drugged-up Woke Western morons ! Who would you rather have in your camp ?

The most important asset of the Russian armed forces is the senile and inept Joe Biden. Biden arguably started the war by announcing at a press conference that the US would not act on limited Russian military action in Ukraine. His dithering on the provision of long range missiles is his latest act of stupidity and will bolster Russia's war effort.

None of it matters.
Ukraine will run out of weapons and manpower before Russia does.
They are practically on the verge of collapse right now.
There's no more offensive actions, they don't have the military power to take any of the land back.

Carrying on and believing a successful drone strike here or there will change Ukraines fortunes is completely delusional.

Why do you think Kishida is calling Kim Jong Un and begging for a meeting without any conditions?
Different side of the continent I know...

Because if North Korea does something, say pummel South Korea and Japan with low yield nuclear weapons, what is the US going to do?
Is it prepared to lose Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego on the US west coast just to respond to North Korean actions when South Korea and Japan have already been annihilated?

That's why Kishida's on the phone begging for meetings.
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/japan-s-premier-says-he-s-ready-to-meet-with-north-korea-s-leader-anytime-/2996402

The US position isn't as strong as many claim.
Ukraine has already lost the war, they have no forces capable of taking anything back, and the West doesn't have the military hardware to help them rebuild a 4th army after the last 3 have already been destroyed.

The US wants to freeze the conflict because it has lost, but wants to keep pretending it has won, and save face.

[Cont.]
Americas ability to potentially beat a numerically larger force is based around its precision strike capability.

Adversaries could litter a battlefield with poor accuracy munitions, but the US had the ability to strike with pinpoint accuracy.

In this war however the US does not possess precision strike superiority.

Russia has superior jamming technology, and can jamm US JDAM missiles.
They just drop like dumb bombs and are ineffective.

On the other hand though, Russia does possess precision strike superiority.
It can drop a 1500kg glide bomb on a building with pinpoint accuracy full of Ukrainian troops as they try to move to the front, taking cover.
- And Ukraine can't jamm them, can't do anything.

Ukrainians take massive casualties before they even get to the front.
And if they do gather sufficient numbers to mount an attack, Russia if forced to will step back and lead them into a firebag, which is how Russian defensive lines were built, with this in mind.

Russia has gotten 10s of thousands of volunteers signing up to military service.
Ukraine has to drag kids off the street and pistol whip them enough times for them to sign their conscription papers.

Ukraine and the West are doing a decent job of losing on their own, without Russia even having to go on a big offensive, but the longer Russia holds back, the more likely the West will do something stupid.

The more well trained Ukrainian troops are all dead.
What they fight with now are poorly trained conscripts.

Hi AC,

Western nations have a very large military resource, mainly because of the aggressive military conduct of nations like Russia. As it is, the major obstacle to Ukrainian advance is the heavily mined land they must advance over. Their task would be made easier by the supply of F16s and longer range missiles, but the supply of these munitions has been incomprehensibly delayed by Russia's best friend, Joe Biden. In his defence, being the Weekend at Burnies PotUS, those decisions are being made by others.

Russia has likely lost at least half of its land based military capability, and its approach to DPRNK suggests that there is a critical shortage of ordinance developing. Without China's supply of electronic warfare equipment, I suspect that the Russian army would have been defeated before now. Ukraine is pursuing a sound military strategy against Russia, but the supply of more capable hardware and ordinance would help their effort greatly.