Russia - threadbanned users in OP

In terms of conventional military warfare yep, agreed, but if he gets silly with nuclear weapons ?

I would like to personally congratulate President Elect Petr Pavel for "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people."

The Chinese need their toes stamping on far more often and far more vehemently than has been the case in recent years.

Endgame? When Putin shuttles off this mortal coil, and his hordes leave Ukraine to the Ukrainians, the rightful owners. But until that happens, Putin is trouble. If he gets the upper hand, and takes Ukraine, then you will see real trouble in Europe / EU. Zelekski and the Ukrainians are the defenders at the gate of Europe. And worth every penny, and more. God help Europe if Putins hordes break through, because if that happens, the cost will be the least of our worries.

There is something odd with the Australian numbers, they seem too low. Australia has provided US$336 million in military aid, not $218m.

In total it's provided $462m when humanitarian and other aid is added.

I dont really know what you expect from the Biden administration, you might judge a book by it cover but the actions of the administration have basically saved Ukraine from ruin. So I don't really understand where the lack of confidence comes from.

The West can just keep pumping military hardware and money into Ukraine indefinitely. There is absolutely no reason for them to stop doing that whilst Ukraine still stands. If Ukraine falls to Russia then what happens next could be interesting as it might not result in Western forces marching into Ukraine to free it immediately, but that is a very very long way from happening and Ukraine has all the military hardware flowing in (they obviously want more, but the flow won't be stopping).

For the west the best result is a Russian revolution and Putin strung up by the citizens, but that is a long way off as well. The best method of defeating Russia for the west is for Russia to just run out of military forces. They don't want to directly defeat them on the battlefield, although that would be a relatively simple task if it came to that.

Will Russia run out, the way its throwing bodies into the fight, NK & Iran supplying ammo and it public support compliant through its very successful anti-western propaganda machine.

I can see Russia continuing to level a sovereign country town by town if we can't have it no1 can which is a massive putin made humanitarian crisis.

Will China take a chance on Taiwan while using Russia as a distraction?

An unreliable source that China is supplying weapons is worrying.

Ukraine its the now goto for testing systems

Tough decisions needed sanctions do nothing, democracy is under attack.

Plenty of non-war criminal russians have been forced to go there.

You make it sound easy. Plenty of high profile Russians couldn't stay in Russia after voicing dissent, or were imprisoned for it. Certainly those without such profiles must encounter as bad or worse fates.

I don't know any Russians at all. I just think it's objectively interesting that a pejorative term for a group of people is currently considered acceptable. That's not propaganda or the product of it.

Perhaps calling them orcs doesn't help them feel like they can escape to a safe and welcoming place. Perhaps it in fact feeds the actual propaganda that we, as westerners, want to destroy them.

They cant keep it up indefinitely - they can only supply what they have in near operational order.

The west has not mobilised for war, it doesnt have a war economy capable of replacing half the stuff sent in a timely fashion let alone boosting stocks above pre-war levels.

Every weapon sent to Ukraine is one that needs replaced, and the replacement process could take years and years.