Russia - threadbanned users in OP

The Europa poll you are referring is from 2022 and it shows a majority of support

Here is the latest one at the one year point:

"EU citizens continue to show their unwavering solidarity with Ukraine. 91% of respondents agree with the provision of humanitarian support and 88% are in favour of welcoming into the EU people fleeing the war. Providing financial support to Ukraine is approved by 77%, while imposing economic sanctions on Russian government, companies and individuals gain the support of 74% of the interviewees. Europeans also continue to be largely in favour of banning Russian state-owned media from broadcasting (67%) and of the EU financing the purchase and supply of military equipment to Ukraine (65%). 

Overall, a majority of European citizens (56%) remain satisfied with the European Union’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. "

TLDR a majority of Europeans support sending aid, financial support and military equipment to Ukraine.

Military power is not just how many conscripts can you give a uniform to and send to the front lines. The moskovyte equipment losses in Ukraine are huge as you can see from the figures I posted above. I think with the influx of western equipment to Ukraine and the equipment they have captured and had themselves already from older soviet stock and new military technology they are importing and developing themselves like military drones the advantage in military power the moskovytes might have thought they had before invading is becoming less and less true.

I don't think you have a good grasp of the facts even just taking your population comparison numbers as an example so forgive me if I am a bit sceptical about you explaining things to me. I'd like to see Ukraine succeed in driving the moskovytes out of their country this year but I don't agree with you telling me this is their only chance. It makes no sense for the rest of the world to step away from the opportunity they now have to diminish moskovyte military power significantly while they are so clearly in breach of international law in trying to destroy their neighbour.

Vietnam, Afghanistan, Afghanistan again, Iraq there's no good recent history for well resourced armies in occupying medium sized countries.

Putin's only wins were small scale in Georgia and Crimea, he had to obliterate Chechnya and install a rogue puppet to govern the ruins even. This war will be the end of the Russian Federation. China will carve off the Far East and leave an impotent rump as it's vassal.

Some good news for Ukraine:

They'll probably be in better condition than the Spanish 2A4s when they went looking for them.

They have been talking about it for months now,

Look at the numbers they are blowing through at the moment,I remember correctly the Ukrainans are going through 210,000 shells per month,

The leaks are probably nothing the Russians don't already know anyway. It's not a good look but I don't think the leaks are damaging to Ukraine really in any practical way.

The US might get tired of sending money , but they won’t get tired of sending weapons.

the benefits of sending weapons over money is that Russia is losing its military and slowly dying, also sending weapons means that they need to be replaced, which in turn keeps all those massive Defence companies in the US ticking over.

Some of it is junk, but the main issue is they can't access the stuff physically. The only sizable airport is in Moldova proper, not Transnistria, and They would never get permission to use it. Russian aircraft wouldn't be allowed to overfly any countries to get to it either. Road and rail likewise.

And if that weren't enough, Ukraine would likely intervene. That arms dump is in the village of Cobasna, which is on the border with Ukraine with an actual border crossing there.

You seem to be in awe of the bigness of the picture you've painted for yourself. Remember that whenever you invoke the "Russia is so big" argument, you're talking about a country with a population that is only barely equivalent to the combined populations of France and Germany, and an economy that was middling at best - before it started falling over the cliff.

Regarding the infinitely inexhaustable stockpiles of everything, it looks like you're still basing your analysis on the same paper inventories that we now know were largely works of fiction. More to the point, though, is the fact that the Russians have demonstrated that they cannot reliably and repeatedly get men, weapons and ammunition to work together in the same place and at the same time.

As Darth Putin puts it: "Russia is now the second strongest army in Ukraine ..."

Unfortunately, the Orcs have a 5-6 times advantage in airpower, and that's Ukraines assessment.

Kind of poignant considering the news over weekend that we can't use our missile defense system because we don't have the radar to make it work.

So we'll just let it gather dust instead of doing the honourable thing and giving it to Ukraine.