It was over in weeks, just like Iraq was over in 3 weeks.
The insurgent/guerilla war and psyop campaign which follows can last years, especially with outside influence fueling it, no different than Iran, Syria were for us in Iraq.
But the war was over quickly, and that is true in Ukraine too. Russia took what they wanted, done.
An inferior military force uses the guerilla war in conjunction with information operations to wear down an enemy and eventually through political pressure get their way.
The problem with Russia is that our IO isn’t affecting them. All we’re achieving is targeting our own people with goofy Ghosts of Kiev, fight to the last man on Snake Island, BS casualty and material loss reports, the next big Ukraine offensive story, girls with blue and yellow ribbons in their hair sucking on a lollipop holding a shotgun... In order for this “junk” to work, it would need to get into Russia and be believed.
Instead we’re only using tax money to psyop our own people, which is also in violation of the NATO agreement, but when has abiding to any sort of agreement stopped us doing anything?
You completely disqualify yourself by comparing the current situation with a mere "guerilla war."
Regards,
For the current ground-truth status of the Ukraine war, see my post #58 above to Worldtraveler.
In summary, Ukrainians have won back about half the territory seized by Russian forces as of March 2022.
Ukraine's highly touted and long awaited "spring offensive", using the latest in Western hardware and training, may or may not, liberate the other half of Russian occupied Ukrainian territory.
It's not guerilla warfare.