I've been reading and watching the western Gov'ts and press say the same thing about Russian supplies since the first days of the war.

Russia stalled out on their attempt at a quick overthrow of Kyiv. The 40 km traffic jam, we were told, was because Russia had no maintenance on their vehicles.

I heard Russia was running out of trucks and parts in March.

When Russia used their hypersonic missiles, the west said it was because they were out of cruise missles.

When Russia lost a lot of tanks in the first weeks, the west said Russia only had 50-year-old tanks left.

Now, three months later, we still see train cars full of tanks moving to the front. Missles rain down every day without end on the suffering (and I mean that literally, not sarcasitcally) Ukrainians.

Russia has taken 20% of the entire country in about 100 days. The largest country in Europe. A country that has been stuffed full of NATO weapons, training and defensive hardening for 8 years.

Russia 2022 is not the mostly agrarian Soviet Union of 1940.

I don't want Ukraine to lose, but I don't live in a fantasy movie. The Ukraine, like other US vassal states, was used as a pawn, or maybe a knight, in the US' global chess game. That pawn is being sacrificed right now. This "game" though means - as expected - hundreds of thousand dead and millions displaced and billions of destroyed value. This doesn't include the millions starving in Africa and the Mid-East due to lack of wheat.

The West is not coming to save Ukraine, and Ukraine can't win on its own. Even with weapons. The west underestimated Russia, and overestimated its financial power over Russia. Turns out that GDP measured by US standards does not say everything about a countries economic strength.