So I take you can understand why I am more on the side of the Russians.
Not really. If your objection to the EU is sovereignty based (like the UK's was, which is why they left it,) I'm not sure why you'd support a regional power that's effectively annexed Belarus and is invading another neighbor in an effort to turn them into a puppet state, too.
When the UK left the EU the EU didn't
fucking invade them.
They're attacking Ukraine in February-March which is when off roading is tough. Or have you not hear of the spring thaw?
Glacially? 20% of Ukraine has fallen and the capital is threatened. There is such things as operational pauses to rest and regroup after a major advance. Read up on WW2 to learn some things and realize this is a higher intensity war that than due to technology.
Russian advances on Kyiv have been stalled for close to two weeks now, and the Ukrainians are now taking ground back from them in counterattacks. That's one hell of an "operational pause." Maybe they should've timed their attack better, no? But that'd require a level of competence that has been demonstrably lacking, hence why they're getting their asses whipped by a nation that was supposed to be a lot smaller and weaker than they are.
Remind me how many battles and how long it took for Fallujah to fall against much weaker opposition? Turns out trying to take a city while not killing masses of civilians or suffer crippling losses takes longer than ADHD American attention spans can focus.
Over a month, which was, as you said, with a much greater discrepancy of force on both sides. Which means that it's going to take three months for the Russians to take Mariupol, if ever, and by the time they're done the units engaged there will be combat-ineffective from heavy casualties. Which means they're stuck there, kiddo. They ain't going fuckin nowhere. They're never redeploying to the Dontesk line, and given how heavy the fighting around Izyum is, and how many dead naval infatryman are showing up around Izyum and Mariupol in Russian media obituaries, the Russians have committed their last real reserve of trained infantry manpower already. It's fuckin over, kiddo. That 10,000 KIA statistic the Rooksies let slip because "they were hacked" lol right sure, given 200,000 troops total deployed equals about 100,000 frontline troops (the rest are truck drivers etc) and the standard ratio of 1/3rd combat casualties being immediate KIA, that means 30,000ish out-of-action Russian troops, 1/3rd the frontline firepower. Good luck scaring up replacement manpower, Russia! Ukraine has their
entire reserve force available, hundreds of thousands, because they're fighting on their
home territory whereas Putin would have to deploy conscripts (which he legally can't) and send them to fight against people fighting for their own homeland and families.
I heard all this same fuckin cope when the war started, from the Western ~analysts~ who told everyone Ukraine was going to fall fast. And they were still jerking off over it a week in, insisting on the fAsT rAtE oF aDvaNcE, comparisons to Desert Storm, the whole nine yards. And now they're all really fuckin quiet. As Ukrainian counterattacks begin to encircle that gigglefuck northwest of Kyiv and fighting over Irpin
still rages, I notice all that copenick jerking off over "boiled in a cauldron!" has suddenly ceased. Hmm. I
wonder why. 
