I don't think Russia is winning, not even close. The notion that the attempt to surround Kyiv was a distraction is laughable. They sent thousands of men to attack the city on 2 flanks, those flanks got bogged down and decimated for weeks. You don't let thousands of your men die in a "distraction", meanwhile gaining very little ground elsewhere.

Russia has made gains in the south, but not as far as they hoped, clearly, seeing as they've already been forced back in some areas there, and they've captured basically nothing elsewhere.

This war is a complete disaster for Russia. I am shocked by the level of failure of the Russian Army, if anything this proves the lack of need for NATO because Russia is a paper tiger, a conscript army, with a lack of any real leadership and equipment made obsolete because of massive amounts of corruption in the Russian elite.

Take nukes out of the equation and the US could roll through Russia in days... yes... days. Their tanks suck, their air force sucks, their generals are incompetent and their soldiers are ill trained and ill equipped. Their army is bleeding out against an (also corrupt) nation, but a nation with a volunteer army and equipped by 'hand me down' weaponry from the west... not even the good stuff.

I don't think Russia is winning, not even close. The notion that the attempt to surround Kyiv was a distraction is laughable. They sent thousands of men to attack the city on 2 flanks, those flanks got bogged down and decimated for weeks. You don't let thousands of your men die in a "distraction", meanwhile gaining very little ground elsewhere.

Russia has made gains in the south, but not as far as they hoped, clearly, seeing as they've already been forced back in some areas there, and they've captured basically nothing elsewhere.

This war is a complete disaster for Russia. I am shocked by the level of failure of the Russian Army, if anything this proves the lack of need for NATO because Russia is a paper tiger, a conscript army, with a lack of any real leadership and equipment made obsolete because of massive amounts of corruption in the Russian elite.

Take nukes out of the equation and the US could roll through Russia in days... yes... days. Their tanks suck, their air force sucks, their generals are incompetent and their soldiers are ill trained and ill equipped.