Russia and Ukraine

[The Grand Nudger]

The army that ran roughshod over the Syrians wasn’t an field army.  It was special forces that conducted a large and extended special force operation.

The russians tried to execute special ops in ukraine as well, with the support of a field army, and failed miserably...in their current special operation™.

The west was war weary at the time, and I understand why there was no credible intervention.  The same could be said broadly of the situation in ukraine as it's developed over the last decade.  Still, as I thought then and now, we're implicated in that slaughter..always were, and even more so in that our fears amounting to the supposed competence and potential of russian military forces were unfounded - and that lead directly to the abandonment of a people in syria and now in ukraine to overt and systematic depopulation. On the plus side - some dirtbag nations bought garbage russian equipment on the basis of that last infomercial, and they probably will again on this. Unfortunately, they might be run by competent potentates, willing to make the necessary modifications, train their crews, and maintain said equipment. When those guys get around to executing the locals (and they will) it will be much more difficult to stop them than it ever was, in mere reality, to stop russia from doing the same..and now ofc, they're emboldened.