Poor Ukraine, but they just might pull it off. This post is about Russia's many surprising failures
Here's a good article addressing Russia's many surprising failures in the Ukraine assault, including poor-quality equipment (due to corruption), poor training, and poor communication/planning at all levels, including, in stupendously bad planning, lying to the common Russian soldiers that they were only going on maneuvers! Soviet soldiers are reduced to abandoning their armored vehicles and trucks, and stealing food. This, coupled with Ukraine's energetic, brave defense of its homeland and its access to good military tech from the West, explains how the Russians have so far mostly failed in their goals, despite overwhelming "on paper" advantages. And Russia has all these troubles, even not considering the economic sanctions, which should, over time, prove very troublesome to the dictator there. If you champion peace, you want to believe that economic sanctions will work, that international pressure on Russia from almost every country will hurt Russia so much ...