Nah. And that's where I'm coming from. Even before this started I was in on this thread and I said hey the Russian top units match ours. Even their "rangers" maybe a step behind but they are still formidable. The rest yeah they suck donkey balls.
I figured the Ukrainians to be similar even with western advisers. Even with billions in aid how much of that is grifted. I figured up to 50-60 percent. And yeah you're going to have some outstanding units. But stuff that I'm reading like their National guard and regular army battalions rocking the shit out of Russia surprised me.
Hell, it might be all the other failures of countries we have "trained up" to fight and they will. One of my best friends was a military advisor for Iraq and he said those were the most useless guys in the world no matter what you taught them. Their trained JOs that get sent to school at Benning were even worst. He said maybe 5 out of 100 were worth a shit. The Afghanistan guys said the same thing. The guys getting sent to Colombia say the same thing. Name a country and they will say the same thing. Hell even the guys coming back from Korea say the same thing. They say those guys are professionals but are fucking rigid. So what makes the Ukranians so special that they can fight and be so damn good at it. Especially when there are certain factions including you saying we have no advisors there at all. So they are some sort of outlier?
It just makes me wonder how the same dudes who were actually doing a good job in Donbas until the Russians came in and said sit down little brother you still can't do shit to us are all of a sudden beating the hell out of them. And then with a 200 thousand strong army, we are getting presented with this picture of oh yeah, it's a rag tag bunch of dudes who got together to shoot these Russians up. Where is this 200 thousand man army, did they split up into small cohesive fighting units and force multiply when need to? Because that's Ranger stuff. It takes more than 8 years of sending JOs to school in the US to make stuff like that happen.