There really isn’t much of a border. That’s the point of all this. Russian chauvists want to incorporate stolen Ukrainian lands into their rebuilt empire. So naturally they haven’t fortified the Russian/Ukrainian border from there side since the plan is for it to be GONE ASAP.
Obviously, Ukraine can’t sustain the level of casualties that a much bigger Russia can. This is what genocidal Nazism looks like. Everyone who opposes Russian revanchism is to be is displaced or killed. What can’t be stolen is destroyed. We’ve seen this movie from Moscow many times over the last hundreds of years of Russian history. Ukrainians know their history. And that is why they fight and defend their borders, language and culture against a much bigger force of invaders.
Nope-
Russia is an oligarchy like us.
You have a small elite that in reality run the place.
Then you have a bureaucracy which serves itself and is party to the political fray.
Russia has pushed this communist command driven economic market system aside and sadly, as well as unbelievably, today we have a greater government share of GDP than they do.
Hard to believe so I’ll provide a source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_spending_as_percentage_of_GDP
Likewise, the atheist aspect of the communist system is gone.
Today you simply have Russia as a has been empire (the Soviet Union and Warsaw pact are gone and not coming back) being pressured by us who want to take over their sphere of influence: Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, Syria 2014, Venezuela 2020...
Of course it is all entirely coincidental these nations are all oil producers, and our true motives are fighting terrorism, WMD, democracy, human rights and national sovereignty (Hahaha).
Russia is weak. It’s us that is the shark.