I do not see the value of a "no-fly zone " when Russian planes do not penetrate deeply into Ukraine unless the definition is expanded to include missiles; the Russians are mostly using missiles. Enforcing a "no missile" zone would be very difficult especially when most missiles are launched outside of the Ukraine.

I do not see NATO planes bombing Russian launch sites or vice versa.

Indeed, garburko posted an interesting article in recent days about how to go about this.

I was also completely surprised at how poor Russian forces have been. Although we need to be careful at what we view on social media, especially with the good job Ukraine are doing in the information wars, it is clear Russia have been bogged down in her progress and taken a huge number of losses in both equipment and personnel. How this compares to Ukraine losses remains unknown, though some estimates have it at a 4 to 1 ratio Russia to Ukraine.

I had thought the amount of armor Russia had would play a decisive factor in this invasion. Having however seen the number of burned out Russian tanks, I think the last place I would want to be in a modern battlefield would be in a tank!!

Never mistake efficiency for efficacy.

Efficiency: the ratio of the useful work spent in a process to the total resources expended. The Russian Army is not very efficient. Lots of effort and resources and slow results.

Efficacy: the ability to produce a desired or intended result.We don't know the outcome of the war yet. Russia may go bankrupt in the process of invading Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of expendable young men may die, but win anyway. Dictators don't care about their own population.

So, we don't know the future. It's comforting to think Russia is corrupt and inefficient, but that doesn't predicts anything.

I think that one of the consequences of this war will be that we see the end of the tank as a weapon system. The development of the tank is way behind the anti tank weapon. Without the development of a Startrek forcefield you would need to armor your tank to a point where it is no longer an asset in battle.
It will go the way of the big gun battleship which was made obsolete by aircraft and missiles. Next big casualty will in my opinion be the aircraft carrier.

After three weeks, Russia has yet to announce any major strategic successes.

Compare with the US invasion of Iraq which was a completely successful invasion in the same timescale, Iraq had a similar size population and army.

The Russian army has proven to be a great military failure; even if they eventually succeed in taking Ukraine they will face years of guerilla action resulting in losing equipment, people, respect and eventually abandoning the Ukraine.

it appears they definitely made some mistakes in the beginning. but they seemed to have made corrections since. and the fact that they have tried to avoid civilian casualties has likely frustrated them. im sure it hasn't gone as fast as they wanted, but one week seems a bit unrealistic for a country as large as Ukraine.

obviously just my opinion but the deliberate destruction of military industry implies that their aim is to demilitarise Ukraine, not total annexation. but who knows.

The Russians have tried to avoid civilian casualties by systematically targeting residential areas, hospitals and schools? What?

Just ignore the troll, perhapshe will go away.

in this case translation doesnt makes any sense since its popular in UA meme

and also you promoting that its Ukrainians shelling its citizens, which is blatant lie and there is no evidence (except your favorite ru propaganda sources)

I would agree that tanks in their current form are obsolete, and definitely wouldn't be where I'd want to perform duty. Aircraft carriers I'm not so sure.

B52s and U-2s were supposed to be superceded a long time ago, but will likely be in service into the 2050s. They are indeed survivors...

Honestly, mods should be insta-banning anyone repeatedly engaging in wilful whitewashing/support/denial of Russian atrocities.

i would not comment official UA military counts of ru death toll, but UA civilians death toll only in Mariupol ~2500, Kharkiv ~600

I think it was like a "collective pilot"

Thanks for the glimpse of life in a parallel universe…

yeah, their correction was to destroy everything they cant capture

in vushka's alternate world its ukrainian army shelling ukrainian civilians

But he's obviously got a following here as his green rep is shooting up.

I can think of a few obvious candidates...

Well, I got there in the end.

And you'd probably be right.