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RE #12. Right now, I think that is the plan. NATO does not have to get directly involved, although the U.S. and NATO have to talk tough. Getting as many weapons to Ukraine as possible, let them fight, let the invasion self destruct, and avoid World War III is how this is shaping up.

I also think this is completely by accident. This is the most incompetent war the world has seen since I don't know when.

Getting as many weapons to Ukraine as possible, let them fight, let the invasion self destruct, and avoid World War III is how this is shaping up.

I also think this is completely by accident. This is the most incompetent war the world has seen since I don't know when.

Years ago, during the cold war, I remember reading something about USSR military doctrine. One of the things that shocked me was the amount of materiel support a Russian armored division requires during an invasion. The amounts of ammunition and fuel are on the order of several thousand tons PER DAY, per division.

Think of a chain saw blade. That's what an invasion by a Russian armored division is like. Instead of cutting into a huge tree, it is cutting into a country. The tanks, artillery pieces, APCs, fuel trucks, ammo carriers... those are like the little cutter teeth on the blade chain. In order to be effective, those teeth have to be fed into the operation as fast as the chain on a chain saw. If that slows down, the results are disastrous.

This is the most incompetent war the world has seen since I don't know when.

"There hasn't been a war run this badly since Olaf the hairy, King of all the Vikings, ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside." - Black Adder