and has not made any real progress in the last week.
They've occupied more of the country than USA did in the first 1-2 weeks of the Iraq invasion...
They are getting humiliated on the battlefield
Last time I checked it's Ukraine begging NATO and the EU to save their ass....
It's SOP military doctrine to send your cannon fodder in first to test the situation and keep your most experienced and best armed forces in reserve. The Russian force that are in Ukraine atm are 18-20 year olds who are still wet behind the ears - literally it's the bottom third of what's stationed on the border...
No! I support independent Ukrainie.
Well good for you, I personally don't care as I have no love for Ukraine or Russia in this matter. For one, they've both been massacring Poles since the middle ages i.e. UPA which is today groups like Right Sector, Azov, National Corps, Svoboda, etc., and two I don't want to see Poland have to suffer economically or demographically by letting them in. There were already at least 1-2 million of them before this conflict, now they've let in some 1 million more. This is a county with 40 mln people - we're getting very close to them being 10% of the population and that may already be the case. These people aren't going to go home when they start making 3-4x in Poland what they did in Ukraine. We let enough of them in and pretty soon they're going to start demanding extra rights, minority language status, etc. When I call Tauron to pay the bill it's going to be "za ukraninski natysne dwi" soon.
It's like that old saying: "when two fight, the third wins" Hopefully Poles can figure it out. It's bad enough gas prices were high and getting now getting to unseen levels and it's only the beginning.
I do find it quite funny though how so many people are so pro-Ukranian and anti-Russia, especially in the US because every media outlet is spewing propoganda 24/7. I doubt the majority of Americans, with their common core education and all, could even find Ukraine on a map. The media is only pushing this narrative and getting people fired up because it's Putin and Russia involved. No one cared about the dozen other conflicts in the past 20 years where exponentially more people died. At best, it was a side note even when it was US/NATO bombing civilians.