As we have learned over 6+ weeks the Russians are a third rate military. They can barely handle Ukraine, a tiny country by comparison with a fraction of the military size. Had NATO got involved a little more actively such as enforcing limited no fly zones it would have gone a long way to help Ukrainians beat Russians out of Mariupol. But NATO prefers to stand at the sidelines and watch.
LOL. Ukraine is an industrialized nation in possession of 50% of the advanced SAMs in Europe. It lost ten times as many tanks as UK possesses. And based on the leaked comments of the UK’s DefSec Russia expended more cruise missiles over two months than the UK has anti-tank missiles. Tell me what NATO country short of the US is able to sustain such attrition against the Russian forces without collapsing.
So; what justification is there for NATO to get involved?
As we have learned over 6+ weeks the Russians are a third rate military. enforcing limited no fly zones
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Russia has always been a 3rd rate military often with neat toys, but nonetheless relies on artillery bombardments (usually of civilians), expendable troops, torture and killing of civilians (terror) followed by mass rape. Rape, its what they do.
There is no such thing as a limited no-fly zone in that part of the world. Any attempt to do something like that would involve attacking Russia directly at the outset.
NATO has little choice - direct help = direct confrontation