Way to evade the actual changes in the military structure new and more advanced weapons and adaptions and innovations of recent years as our military switches to near peer warfare and adapts to what they are learning from Russia’s deadly and costly quagmire in Ukraine.
Unsolicited qualifying remarks aren’t arguments. Russia has achieved their political (No NATO) and military objectives (seizing Eastern ethnic Russian areas). When this war ends it will be on Russia’s terms.
We’re just stalling at this point. There are many who are politically invested to the point where their own survival (political) depends on this war and ending it today under Russia’s terms and the obvious loss/defeat that would mean even with the best media spin, is unacceptable. So we continue a war where Ukraine has ZERO chance of regaining their lost territory, any hopes of NATO are long gone, and in fact even EU membership was sacrificed. Can someone say - “stupid?”
In this war, stalling as we are, only means more dead, more lost territory for Ukraine (Russia will continue to slow creep to keep the pressure on), more damage to Ukraine’s infrastructure. Any hope for Ukraine actually winning, and there was a small chance of that, ended in 2023 when that counter offensive and 9 mechanized brigades we equipped were expended.
All that aside and back to the point. When you mess with a near peer and they start pouring their resources into their war machine, it makes your toys obsolete quicker. You see that today with our jamming equipment which is being rendered useless by fiber optic drones, Excalibur which is no more accurate than a 1970s unguided 155mm shell, HIMARS which is so inaccurate we use cluster munitions to cover a huge area in the hope it gets what it was sent for...
Messing with Russia is not like messing with Iraq.