Because the Russian federation is such a pack of incompetent fucking clowns that merely sending a handful of modern weapons, i.e. the HIMARS, has been more than enough to assfuck Russian rear-area logistics and supply into the stratosphere. Because Territorial Defense Forces who were trained in irregular warfare by the CIA were able to, with nothing more than shoulder-fired RPGs and rifles, assrape Russian logistical columns early in the conflict and inflict staggering losses. Because Russia's vaunted and much-storied army got their asses handed to them so fucking hard that they had to retreat from the assault on Kyiv and left in their wake such a staggering amount of materiel that it still boggles the imagination. I extensively documented just how hard the Russians got raped during their "withdrawal" from the Kyiv theater
here and
here, using extensive video footage of an entire Russian armored company getting wiped out as a case study in just what a shitshow their combat power is.
This is what the west and NATO have accomplished by sending
peanuts. We sent shoulder-launched missiles, small arms ammunition, obsolete AFVs (M-113s etc.) and obsolete and moderately upgraded Soviet kit from former Soviet satellite nations (T-72s from Poland, etc.) Many of the weapons we sent were nearing their expiration dates - solid rocket motors have a limited shelf life. The vast majority of munitions sent were paid for during the 1980s for use against the Soviet Union - i.e., Russia - and now these already-paid for stocks are doing
exactly what they were meant to do, which is to destroy Russian combat power. And much of the effectiveness of both our weapons and Ukrainian weapons have been determined by the quality of the intelligence information provided by NATO reconnaissance platforms. You have the Russian army communicating using
unencrypted Chinese Baofeng radios while the most advanced ELINT platforms on the planet constantly hover just off the Ukranian coastline hoovering up the data - it is no mystery that Ukrainian munitions so consistently land directly where they hurt the most. And once that phenomenal intel capability was paired with a
handful of modern standoff precision munition launchers, we were privileged to see the entire Russian Kharkiv front collapse in a matter of three weeks; with gains that cost them months of fighting being lost in days.
