The war in Ukraine was supposed to be over by now. One year later, it rages on with no end in sight.
The Russian military was supposed to be a near-unbeatable war machine. Modernized with petrodollars, it was supposed to easily rout a much smaller force. The war in Ukraine would expose the Russian military as being poorly led, hollow and brittle, and largely incapable of engaging in the type of combined arms operations required to quickly take the Ukrainian capital and other key regions of the country and then hold them.
