Well, that goes both ways. The Putinistas 1st assured us Russia wasn’t going to invade, then that Putin just wanted to secure area the separatists controlled, then it was only those entire provinces (Putin “confirmed”), then it was certain Ukraine would fall quickly...
The best indicator to me is that Kiev has not yet fallen, and the Ukes were ok with concluding the negotiation session yesterday without any urgency, it would seem, to resume quickly.
A big question for me is that 17 mile long Russian convoy headed to Kiev: Will the Ukes get enough Javelins in place in time to disrupt that convoy B4 it gets to Kiev, or will they let it enter the city or encircle it and then try to pick the Russians apart? Are the Russians willing to kill thousands of civilians? How is the newly reconstituted (but still very small) Ukrainian Air Force going to play into this? And survive long?
And what’s up with the mercenaries? If you have an army why do you need to hire paid killers?
Stop believing the propaganda. For one week now you have been fed the exact opposite of everything you and the entire world has believed about the Russian war machine for 70 years. The network talking heads repeat these the obvious Ukrainian lies and your neocon blood gets up. Take a minute and look at everything your neocon leaders have told you about Russian armor prior to 2/22/22. Did you end up with whiplash trying to daily change your take on Covid to agree with the latest obvious lies you were fed for two years? In reality, you have no more idea what’s going on in Ukraine than we knew what was going on in Wuhan January of 2020. You’re being had by the propaganda AGAIN.