> Kofman said he believes the analysts did not misread Russian capabilities as much as they underestimated the Ukrainian ones.

That's a bluff, Ukrainian army was revamped right after annexation of Crimea happened, they received training from Israeli army, Europe and the USA were eyeing the country's natural resources. The stagnation of the EU is providing enough encouragement in providing military aid, something that the general population is split on.

https://www.thelocal.de/20230120/are-germans-really-that-pacifist-anymore

War is an extention of politics and all countries are preparing for one. We are all approaching the point where it will either be nationalism or internationalism/resistance/civil wars. I wish best to Iranian revolutionaries, mass insurrection and general strike is a personally preferred alternative to being in denial about a possible thermonuclear WW3.

What a clown fiesta this is, the Ukraininan government remains to be the enemy of its people for all the shady corruption, anti-unionism, and taking extreme WTO-dictated Neoliberalism as "standard norm". You can pretend all you want but Yanukovich Ukraine was barely distinguishable from Russia and renaming every second street after Bandera is not an improvement. Everybody's gangsta until the question of military draft comes into play, where the sons of politicians and diplomats display that they can help combat Ukraine's coronavirus by really socially distancing themselves from us, plebs.

From fire to flame. No external aid will help fixing internal issues of any government, since every state acts in their self-interest. Experience with Russia should have been a lessen to learn from.