Ukraine invasion a poorly planned and shambolic disaster (so far)?

Historically Russia are keeping their military & defense, war strategy, victory, losses quiet unlike Western Media Outlets.

"Russia’s communications watchdog warned media outlets they would be “immediately blocked” and fined 5 million rubles ($59,000) for spreading “deliberately false information” surrounding Russia’s military actions in Ukraine.

“We emphasize that it is the Russian official information sources that have and distribute reliable and up-to-date information,” said the watchdog, Roskomnadzor"

I am starting to feel this way too. Unless Russia has something up their sleeve that we just don't know about, I am not so sure that military action is going to solve anything for Russia. Seems almost like a pointless operation.

However, as some might say, if you have big weapons but never use them, then what's the point of having them? To some degree, I feel this way about the US invasion of Iraq. They just wanted to test their weapons on real targets. As messed up as that sounds, I could see a government doing it to keep their military industry useful.

And yes, western Ukraine is not sympathetic to Putin but I do think some of the old soviet blocks could be swayed in Russia's favor. I think there are still plenty of commie ideals that are embraced by many in eastern Europe. We'll see how this plays out, especially now that it looks like Germany and the Netherlands are basically going to get involved in this militarily.

If anything, his half-assed invasion has encouraged their resistance.

we secured Baghdad in a timely fashion

They secured Baghdad because they first secured the loyalty of high Shiite Mullahs and promised them complete control of post Saddam-Iraq (big mistake...they allied themselves with Iran).

The mullahs in Iraq issued a fatwa (religious decree) forbidding Shiite Iraqis from fighting US-Coalition forces, that's why there was no fighting, most of the none-Saddam backing soldiers just fled or surrendered.

Same happened in 1991, the Iraqi-soldiers simply surrendered because the last thing they wanted is to die for Kuwait and Saddam's ambitions.