Russia was thought to have the second most powerful army in the world, while Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe. It was assumed Ukraine will fall in 3 da

Russia was thought to have the second most powerful army in the world, while Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe. It was assumed Ukraine will fall in 3 days. Whether Russia succeeds or not depends on your expectations. To me, as a Pole, the fact that Ukraine is demilitarizing Russia is a great success of Ukrainians. Russia will be too spent to even consider attacking Poland yet again, hopefully for at least a decade. Ukraine looking east to Russia is done. Almost nobody in Ukraine wants to keep relationships with Russia. So there is great hope that now Ukraine will be able to make up its mind and choose Western path to prosperity as did Poland. Mind you, Polish and Ukrainian economies were the same size in 1989-1991 after we pushed Soviet Union to collapse. Before the war in 2021 Ukrainian economy was 3 times smaller than Polish. Also, the push to transition away from Russian gas has never been greater in EU.