Comments by "Geoff Lepper" (@geofflepper3207) on "Ukraine War: 'Ukrainian forces can smell victory'" video.

Hope that the recent success of the Ukrainian military reflects what I was thinking during the summer - that Ukrainian forces would struggle to adjust as they slowly switched from Soviet to western weapons and at times had a hodge podge of both and that would be a difficult time for them on the battlefield but once they had more of less transitioned to western weapons and kept getting huge supplies from NATO countries they would start to have an advantage over a Russian army still using Soviet weapons and not getting significant supplies of new weapons from anywhere. Though I presume that the Ukrainans are still using Soviet style tanks and planes. One other thing: After major restrictions were put on technological exports to Russia it was said that more and more Russian civilian planes would be usable as parts break down and the Russians would be unable to get replacement parts and they could cannibalize parts from other idle Russian planes for a while but eventually the whole sysyem breaks down and the Russian civilian air industry would collapse. I am wondering if Russia also needs western parts for its military aircraft and thus if they are running out of parts needed to keep their airforce in the air. I presume that countries are much more likely to avoid having their military planes dependent on foreign parts, especially in the case of Russia.
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