Originally Posted by
etudiant
An outside perspective which seems sensible to me:
https://www.theamericanconservative....ukrainian-war/
The Ukraine leadership has done a superb job mobilizing western international opinion and quashing dissent, internally as well as externally.
To illustrate,
Victoria Spartz, the one person in Congress who is Ukrainian born and personally familiar with the situation, has been efficiently marginalized,
because her criticism of the Ukraine management were too much for Kiev.
Imho the absence of critical monitoring and auditing was a major factor in the failure of the US Afghan mission, by the evidence it is being repeated in spades in Ukraine
Great, shall we do the same analysis for Russia now? How is Putin's gov'mt quashing dissent?
Ukraine was - and probably still is - a very corrupt state, no one denies that. However they made strides in changing their ways and better themselves which is why the Kremlin mafia in Moscow invaded them in the first place.
As for mobilizing western international opinion, Russia did that all by itself.