We are seeing the human tragedy unfold and the heroism of a brave and determined people who are well lead, trying to preserve their liberal democracy and defend their nation from a brutal dictator. The struggle is in the balance and will be for a week as the Russians attempt to encircle Kyiv and divide the country east and west along the Dnieper river that runs from north to south.
We hear a lot about what the Russians are doing and very little of what the Ukrainians are doing and what we are doing to help, as it should be. One of the things NATO is good at is multilingual training and it has a great deal of experience training armies and they are good at it, it's one of the main things they do. I can't believe they aren't helping the Ukrainians to train and equip a large one, both in Europe and Ukraine. Everything from ground pounders, missile system operators, to fighter pilots are being trained on accelerated courses. They don't need 90 days of basic, training can range from 3 days for irregular forces, to 3 weeks for soldiers and longer for special forces. The Ukrainians can draw from 5 million fit men and NATO can arm a lot of them with soviet weapons at least. So new troops suddenly appearing on the battle field and counter attacking the Russians is a distinct possibility IMHO. Once they wear them down and stretch out their supply lines they will strike where they are vulnerable, they are making many mistakes and they will be taken advantage of.