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> I fully understand that you hope to see sudden breakthroughs

I want to see an end of this pointless war where a lot of people died for a lot of nothing and Europe along with other parts of the world just became poorer.

> In the early months of the war, we saw large armoured spearheads, such as the one destroyed at the Siverskyi Donets river crossing in May 2022, which consisted of 80-100 vehicles. Advancements in drone warfare on the Ukrainian side and equipment shortages on the Russian side have made it impossible to assemble such spearheads anymore. So even if there are breaches in Ukrainian frontlines, they cannot be (and haven't been) exploited on a massive scale as they were earlier in the war.

War has changed and that would be a big headache for the US and NATO in general because they know nothing about cheap-drone-warfare and NATO troops rarely faced off against a similar force, they became complacent.

> Besides that, any rapid Russian advancements in Ukraine would likely be countered by the deployment of a multinational European force. This seems to be currently in preparation even without any breakthroughs.

Europe's army is pathetic, they organised a meeting in Paris and all they could muster up is 25k soldiers, that's nothing, we have serious issues here.

> Europeans are expected to officially announce a 700bn defense package after the German elections on Sunday.

That's great but how long till it actually materialises into something? It takes time to build a military industry.

> 700bn is many times more than has been provided to Ukraine so far, by the entire world, combined.

Not as much if you research the real cost of participating in this war, a lot of economic productivity was erased as a result of the sanctions.

Money means nothing if there is nobody left to hold the weapon.

> The longer the war drags on, the more modern equipment Ukraine will receive to replace the destroyed Soviet stocks and the more closely it will be aligned with NATO countries.

You are making the assumption that "more modern" as always better and that NATO doctrine is superior in a setting where NATO has never fought before.

> This is another measure by which the Russian invasion has been a complete failure.

The whole point was to demonstrate that you can ignore deals you make with Russia because Russia is no longer a superpower, well that didn't work out.

> We went from Obama refusing to provide lethal aid to Ukraine in 2014, to Ukraine's air force flying F-16s and Mirages in 2025 while Rheinmetall is building arms factories in Ukraine.

Yes and then Russia has built a missile that we can't shoot down that can target anything in Europe, great progress, what's next, do we want to see them test it with actual nukes inside it?

> This is far more than any NATO ally has received since the Cold War.

People clinging on to the Cold War need to retire, the world has moved on and changed.