"I'm going to enjoy our agreement here for a few moments before going onto your next..." sentence. ;-)
What is your evidence that Ukraine is getting stronger?
What is your evidence that Russia is winning by taking heavy casualties rather than artillery?
What is your evidence that Russia does not have enough planes, and cannot produce more? Same for tanks, ships, armored vehicles, artillery pieces and the ammunition for all of the same?
What is your evidence that Ukraine will get any more than the handful of F-16s that have not yet been delivered?
What is your evidence that Ukraine has pilots to fly more than a handful of F-16s?
What is your evidence that Ukraine has landing fields any where near the combat zones that F16s can use?
What is your evidence that the Russian economy is imploding now, or even trending downward?
What is your evidence that the US is in any way interested in a negotiated settlement whereby Russia gets to keep the land it has taken from Ukraine?
There is evidence supporting the opposite of every single question I posed above. i.e. Ukraine's average soldier's age is 43 now. Meaning for every 20 year old, they have a 66 year old on the front line. More Russian missiles get through now than ever before. More Russian air sorties are flown than ever before (I've heard reports that Russia now has "Air Superiority" but that is too recent for me to accept as truth). Russia just took several hundred MORE prisoners in one major victory. Russia has been (mostly very) slowly pushing along the entire front line for 6+ months.
There is zero evidence that Ukraine is getting stronger - particularly when you use the metric - "in comparison to Russia." Yes, Ukraine is making more drones than two years ago. Russia making far more drones than Ukraine, and the gap is widening.
These last two paragraphs are my response to just your first statement that "Ukraine is getting stronger." That is why I just posed questions. I don't have time to write three pages of rebuttal.
Me being right here doesn't make the world a better place. It just is. Ukraine is losing, and the trend is getting worse rather than better.
The real problems are all the money in world (and the US has the most!):
1) Will not allow the west to make shells and armament faster than Russia. In the US we turned our military - and most everything else that should be a social good - into a private profit center. So we can make great weapons, but slowly and at great cost; and
2) Will not grow a new generation of Ukrainians to fight.
The US underestimated Russia just like the Germans in WWII and Napoleon a century earlier. Ukraine - not the US - will pay the price for the US' mistake for the next decades at least. That is the horrible truth here.
