Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Ukraine Occupies Kursk: What Next?" video.

@abdullahalkandari2976 Regardless, this is far more embarrassing for Russia then it is for Ukraine, before the war, Russia was seen as a powerful military in the west, 2 and a half years later, Russian progress in Ukraine has been extremely poor for a country that likes to boost that it's a superpower in military matters. What this war is really doing is exposing how weak the Russian military has actually got, and yes, I'm well aware that western countries are helping Ukraine with arms, but let's be honest with ourselves, what the EU and US have done so far is token gesture, they've basically only helped with crumbs and could do far more if they wanted too, yet with that little help, it's causing hell for Putin, and if that isn't bad enough, Ukraine has many restrictions on them in how they can use these weapons, whereas Russia can strike any target in Ukraine, Ukraine where limited in what they could target and were held back by the west in not targeting Russian soil, that's changing somewhat over the last year. In any case, war is war, the moment Russia attacked Ukraine, then Ukraine had every right to attack targets in Russia, and in fact I would go as far as saying they had that right when Russia took over Crimea a decade ago, but let's not kid ourselves, this war could have been prevented if the western countries were tougher on Russia a decade ago, that soft touch approach from the west basically allowed Putin to go for another land grab, and if the west is stupid enough to allow Russia to take over all of Ukraine, it won't end there and will likely escalate into something far bigger that could drag us in kicking and screaming, history has shown that you have to nip these wars in the bud early on before they get out of hand, and the west have been quite poor on that front with being way too slow to give Ukraine the arms needed to end the war sooner rather then later.
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@BOZ_11 I don't think Ukraine plans on holding it, it's mostly about sending a message to Putin whiles at the same time, forcing Putin to divert forces away from the front line. I think Ukraine is banking on that Putin is throwing everything he's got at the front line that there isn't enough manpower to stop Ukraine doing what it wants, there might be some truth to that, we are already 5 or so days in and the Russian response has been quite weak, and more will likely be known over the next week or two, if Putin isn't able to push them back over the next few weeks or if Ukraine is able to push further forward, this could become very problematic for Putin and highly embarrassing.
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filipe5722 If Ukraine were to lose, then the escalation to a major war could be on the cards. Think about it, do you honestly think that if the west were to allow Putin to take over all Ukraine, that it would end there? We in the west would have to be really stupid to think that, especially considering what happened with Crimea a decade ago. This is a land grab from Putin, he's testing western response, if it's weak enough, he'll continue to pick out other targets to continue the land grab, which could eventually lead to a major war that would likely drag in a lot more countries, the history books will remember how all that started and how it could have been prevented if the west grew a spine and give Ukraine the means to end the war sooner rather than later. Either way, all none EU or NATO countries are potential targets of Russia in Europe as I highly doubt Putin will want to take on an EU or NATO country as that would escalate things quite rapidly.
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Yes but the NATO countries don't have a spine, and without that, these numbers mean very little. If NATO countries were more involved, that would be really bad news for Russia as I can't see any way Russia could win that.
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