“Then why are they begging for help?”
They’re successful right now BECAUSE they are getting help.
Without continuous support of weapons and resources from other countries it would be game, set, match Russia.
I’ll say one thing though, being next door to putin, Zelenskyy shoulda been arming his country every chance he got.
100k Russians at a Putin rally-soccer stadium. You can’t coerce that many attendees.
Low information supporters? We have the same thing here.