I for one am shocked at how Russia handled this war. I thought they would have fought more of an American style campaign and relentlessly bombed Ukraine before a single Russian boot hit the ground. They could have easily done that but chose not to. But that's not what they did,.........instead they turned it into a STUPID war of attrition meat grinder. IMO there is only one reason Russia chose to go the route they did..........a great FEAR of NATO entering into the mix with actual Troops and hardware. And really,...they SHOULD fear NATO,....we have the far superior force. So,....Russia decided to fight this war by hamstringing itself in how they fought it which is a losing deal. They would have been far better off negotiating a settlement. You cannot fight a WAR half assed. And that's exactly what they did. FEAR of NATO was the cause,....thus proving that for all its faults NATO works fairly well for doing what it was designed to do.
