A proxy war is another way of saying military failure.
The CIA has been over there since before 2014.
BTW..although The Ukraine has been supplied with conventional weapons from NATO countries, they have not been supplied with the most advanced weapons because they can not be trained in time to use them.
Most of the weapons are old conventional and former Soviet Block weapons. They finally are supposed to have sent in a couple older Leopard tanks which have the more advanced fire directives. Will be interesting how fast the stupid Ukrainians manage to get those destroyed.
A proxy war is another way of saying “I want to use and exploit some other poor suckers rather than risk my own troops.” We do it a lot.
While Ukraine used Soviet era tanks, they have been heavily supplied with stingers, javelins, M777 howitzers, HIMARS, etc. (not to mention missiles that took down the Moskva)...all made in the U.S., though HIMARS are operated or supervised by U.S. “contractors.” BTW, I hear FIGHTING Americans in Telegram videos all the time. Hard for an American to miss an American accent...they don’t even sound Canadian to us like they do much of the rest of the world..:-)
Ukraine has blown through an enormous full fledged repeatedly refurnished arsenal and as General Z made clear they will require an ENTIRE additional arsenal to even have a “fighting chance” to take back more territory.
But, what I consider the most significant metric for analysis is that Russia is killing 10 times more Ukrainians than Ukraine is killing Russians.
Resident https://t.me/s/rezident_ua/
Military registration and enlistment offices across the country have stepped up the distribution of subpoenas, a new wave of mobilization should not only close the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the eastern front, but also increase the number of the Ukrainian army by 15-20% by February 2023.
I believe this is their 9th mobilization. MacGregor says they are now mobilizing 14, 15, 16 yr. old boys and the elderly.