re: Is the Russian Army Really Failing?

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I am no military expert, but I can compare what Russia is doing to past military operations. Ukraine is about 50% larger than Iraq and it took American forces about a month to get to and take Baghdad. The coalition sent in 177,000 ground troops into Iraq and it still took over a month.

So why is everyone saying Russia has failed just because they haven't taken a larger country (Ukraine) in under a week? Honest question.

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This is all based on reports and analysis we're getting from US news media.

OUR media covered OUR war, and made it seem spectacular. We rolled without resistance.
OUR media is now covering THEIR war, and reports Russia is getting their teeth kicked in. Somehow Russia is advancing, despite every report saying they are taking high losses and the Ukrainians are resisting heroically.

And this is a totally different set of circumstances, too. Somehow, the Iraqi army was touted as "the 4th largest army in the world". Maybe numbers because they drafted everyone for their war against Iran, which they couldn't win...
Does anyone honestly think Iraq could have beaten most of the European countries in a head-to-head conflict? They were using mostly older gen Soviet gear, several generations behind ours.

Ukraine, when it left the USSR, had a large amount of frontline Soviet gear. It WAS USSR, and it was an area that was prepped for the East-West conflict if it came.

This is correct. Saw someone else post that Russia does not have air control. If that was the case, this convoy would have been destroyed days ago.
Stop believing western media! They are the enemy to truth.

It’s pretty simple. They started off with a pretty soft approach to limit damage and killing civilians. They have pivoted to a stronger approach because of resistance. I don’t think Russia expected it to be as easy as crimea, but they didn’t expect the current level of resistance. They are losing the information war. That will likely change as people run out of food and stay cold

Kyiv is only like 80 miles from the Belarus border and the Russians were able to cover a decent chunk of that distance by going through the uninhabited Chernobyl exclusion zone as well.

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Well, for one, I would expect Iraq (a fairly formidable army in its day) to put up a hell of a lot more fight than Ukraine. If I recall correctly, Iraq was the #4 team on the planet at one point in the not too distant past. They also had a more distinct home field advantage over us than would be the case between Russia and Ukraine.

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Army numbers don’t mean shvt without an air force and formidable? They got wrecked in the gulf war, Iran war, stomped by Israel multiple times?

The Russians are running the preseason squad against Ukraine's first string and still has Kiev surrounded, I think they'll be fine.

What did Sun Tzu say? "wars are a moral contest". Russia is losing badly in this department. Even their lies/propaganda are not very good. The entire world (less China) is vehemently opposed to this invasion. No one is going to do business with Russia as long as Putin is in charge.

I am beginning to think Putin may lose this one and have to back out early. Even if they get control of the cities I'm betting Ukranians begin a gorilla war that never ends. And how long can Putin support the war when his economy has been utterly destroyed?

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The entire world (less China) is vehemently opposed to this invasion

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People keep saying this, but here are the countries not taking part in sanctions or are back end supporting Russia

okay…

Communist Russia and Nazi Germany were morally equivalent despite Stalin being the murderer of more millions of innocent people.