Why doesn't Ukraine surrender?, they aren't gonna win from Russia in a thousand years and if Putin is going with the standard Russia army protocol, and take of the velvet gloves i fear Ukraine isn't existing anymore.
If we want to go into full-retard layman speculation, I can try at it. So long as you take everything with roughly a Dead Sea's quantity of salt.
There's a few reasons for Ukraine not to surrender right away, the main thing being that the longer this takes, the worse it is for Putin, the worse it is for Russia. Also, the worse it is for Ukraine- it's a game of chicken. You're right in that Ukraine doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of actually defeating the Russian army militarily, but the funny thing about wars is that it's not always about the tactical side or the equipment or killing everybody. "Winning" is off the table, but Zelenskyy can threaten to make Putin's victory as painful as he can.
Which isn't a meager threat because it's safe to assume Putin wants this to be over as quickly as possible. I'm not a psychic and I'm not a brain parasite sucking on Putin's scalp, but it's reasonable to think that the plan was basically to kick the Ukrainian army's teeth in, seize the eastern seperatist territories, and then offer talks to come away with what he really wants, which is the land with people in it that actually like him and not the rest of the country that hates him.
Is it moral or wise for Zelenskyy and the West to play chicken against Russia using the blood of their people and the future of their country? I wouldn't say so, but then, I'm not a politician, I'm a retard on the internet on a shitpost gossip forum. You get what you pay for at this restaurant.
I don't believe we have seen the real army in action only fresh trainee's and disposables.
This isn't true. The VDV for example are not fresh trainees nor disposable, and trying to execute a fast modern maneuver war with any troops you could consider "disposable" would be incredibly unwise. The fuckups and failures thus far aren't a sign of individual incompetence, but of operational overconfidence. Russia hasn't been using all its assets like it could for whatever reason, such as their vastly superior air force, and I'm inclined to say it's because they expected Ukraine to just fall over and be too scared to put up a fight because it's one they couldn't possibly hope to win.
Yet see, you can easily win a fight with a rabid raccoon, but that doesn't mean you'll come out feeling like you gained anything after stomping its brains out.
Ukraine on the other hand is arming prisoners and don't seem to hesitate to send children into the fire. This is gonna be a giant loss of life for Ukraine and the majority who gonna and up death are butchers, bakers, students, not even military.
It's impossible to speak authoritatively on anything with the information situation being the way it is now, but I sincerely hope that a lot of this is smoke and mirrors and not an actual intent to militarize civilians. Because that's how it becomes war crime hour in a war that already didn't need to happen if the diplomats involved didn't all have their heads in their asses and a devil may care attitude.
