Ukraine will run out of manpower. The Balts don’t have enough. Poland only wants the western part.
So, when will the US call up reserves, mobilize the National Gauard and deploy them to the theater for battle?
US is just going to send munitions, and equipment we’ve destined for or pulled from DoD’s scrap heaps.
They’re doing this because it is chewing up significant Russian war material.
How long the Russians can hang onto the 50% of their initial gains that they still have is what remains to be seen.
Putin’s arresting more of his internal critics is not something you see from the side that thinks things are going great.