Believing anything in the media is nutz.
The Russians were out of missiles. Except they weren’t. The Russians were out of artillery rounds. Except they weren’t. The Russian population was turning against Putin. Except it wasn’t. Russia was retreating before the Ukrainians. Except they weren’t.
I've stopped posting here in my own thread mostly because all I see is fog.
Are the Russians really demoralized, poorly trained conscripts with inferior weapons or is that just whistling past the graveyard?
The Russians aren't exactly forthcoming about, well, anything, so a lot of what you see in the media is analysis and estimation.
But, the results of the last 18 or so months speak for themselves. Russia has met virtually none of the goals that it stated at the outset of the fighting. What goals it did meet have been largely nullified. The issues with their equipment have been well documented.
Russia's Army is roughly 3 times the size of Ukraine's, yet the Ukrainians have fought them to a near standstill and inflicted an incredible level of equipment and personnel casualties.
Most observers expected Ukraine to fall in a matter of months, if not weeks. Yet here we are, in a war of attrition that Ukraine may well be winning.
So yeah, it might be whistling past the graveyard, but it's a graveyard full of dead Russian soldiers and equipment.