If they’re still trying to take over Ukraine they’re not trying very hard, or, they’re not the fighting military Putin thinks they are.
This isn’t the old Red Army.
Most of Russias troops are 18 year old draftees who have zero motivation to fight.
the Ukrainians on the other hand are highly motivated to defend their homes and country. Also thanks to Putins proxy war in Donbas and Luhansk lots of Ukrainians are combat veterans at this point.
Given enough anti tank and anti air weapons they can make the Russians pay very high price for this invasion.
“If they’re still trying to take over Ukraine they’re not trying very hard, or, they’re not the fighting military Putin thinks they are.”
In your military judgement, how many days should it take for them to take over something almost the size of Texas? Especially if you are not trying to flatten the cities or kill civilians in the process. It took Hitler’s Army 6 weeks to grab the western half of Ukraine up to Kiev.
It took us about 4 weeks to secure all of Iraq in 2003 which is about 60% the size of Ukraine and mostly wide open.
The stated goal was to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Not to hammer the cities.
It’s pretty obvious what Putin is doing. He most definitely is not throwing his full military punch. Putin has shown what the military reality is and is going to use that at the negotiating table. This can be negotiated if the NATO crazy talk ends and the GD American Democrat Party stops destabilizing the area for power and profit. If the negotiations fail, you will then see the Russian Army unleashed.