Russia - threadbanned users in OP

The footage we've seen of Russian jets and helicopters shot down have been from ground fire. The convoy hits were drones. All good, but again what we're seeing is almost entirely one sided*. And I agree smaller armies have fúcked up much larger armies more than once and I really hope this is the case with the Ukrainian defence. The cities are their biggest hope, because if they can hunker down from airstrikes it takes most, if not all of the invader's advantages away. They could inflict massive Russian casualties there. And it may be ghoulish of me to say and wish for speaking in comfort and safety at a distance, but I hope they bloody well do. To the point where the Russian autocrats can't spin their way out of this to the Russian people. Though sadly IMHO many of the Russian people at home are currrently a lost cause and those that aren't are living in fear in one of the few actual facist states in the world.

*which raises questions too of course. Why aren't we seeing Russian successes? Surely they'd want that for the spin for their own side at home? No doubt they'd 'explain' that away as "well it's not really a war y'know Komrade", but it could also be because in close in fighting they have few enough examples of success and most of their successes have been from stand off distance weapons like artillery, bombs and rockets that aren't easy to film as propaganda and would open them up to even more calls of atrocities.

Now that's some high level 24 carat trolling right there. 🤣🤣🤣

1. Home advantage. The guy fighting to stop his wife and family being raped will fight 10 times harder than a conscript.

100% agreed.

2. With Russia's vast army, why are they relying on conscripts?

Vast armies tend to. To make up the numbers around their professional soldiers.

3. Ukraine IS getting massive help from the West.

Agreed.

4. Russia is imploding. Time is not on their side.

I agree, but how much time is the problem CW. Unless there's an internal coup... and even then I would be willing to bet that wouldn't be so popular among a large enough percentage of the population who really do see putin as a good leader for Mother Russia. Initally anyway. And a nuclear capable nation imploding is hard to predict and a bit worrying too.

5. Evidence (ref Kyiv convoy) that the Russians haven't a fûcking clue how to fight this war.

I agree in one way. Yes they ran out of logistics when they ran out of trains to move men and material. Major screwup. On the other hand the fact the same crazy long convoy remained in place for day after day pretty unmolested is a worry as far as the Ukrainian's ability to blow it to bits. Considering it was a massive and strategically very important target, with TARGET in big red letters written miles long.

I wouldn't write off Ukraine. I'd back them in fact.

I wouldn't and haven't and do back them 100%.