Why does the biggest country in the world have to “lay back and wait” in a battle against Ukrainian “farmers and miners”? Because Russia is a Potemkin fake and weak, obviously.
Yeah, but they took what they wanted and it appears there’s not jack shit anyone can do about it.
So there’s that.
Perhaps Russia has taken all the ground they wanted to take, have now established entrenched defenses and are now allowing the Ukrainians to go on the offensive and expose their forces.
Never forget that Russia, with a minuscule $65 billion annual military budget is kicking the wests arse with its $1.5 trillion annual military budget. The western military model and supply chain is no match for Russia, because our system is designed around the idea of perpetual war in the developing world and occasionally bludgeoning the third world and Middle East to maintain hegemony. The MIC is a danger to the world and the biggest grift ever, it’s not about “defence”, it’s about corrupt enrichment in exchange for political patronage. These Ukraine battlefield fiascos are finally exposing that.