Russia's Problem

 The US found some nations engaged in horrible, criminal activities, especially wanting to squander the profits from their natural resources on their own people when everyone must know that, with the demise of the USSR, all the world's resources belong to the US (with a little for US allies France and the UK).

When Iran claimed Iranian oil in 1951, the US sent the CIA to remove the government that stole the oil and put in the Shah who promised all the oil would belong to the US. When the Shah stole the oil, the US put in an obscure cleric who only cared about stoning women who didn't wear proper Islamic dress. But then the Ayatollah failed to hand over the oil, so the US would have destroyed Iran except there was no strait path to that destruction, so the Ayatollahs continue to refuse to hand the oil over to the US, and the US forbade the world from buying any Iranian oil. Of course, other evil nations have defied the US and bought Iranian oil, so their destruction is in the planning stage: buying Iranian oil is only one of many PRC violations of the Rules-Based Order, i.e., the US make all the rules and give all the orders.

Of course, Iraq tried to claim Iraqi oil, and Libya tried to claim Libyan oil, so the US destroyed both countries, carpet bombing the cities, killing as many of the men, women, and children terrorists as possible, destroying all their illegal infrastructure: water processing plants, electric plants, schools, hospital, & etc., all built with stolen US oil money.

This was easy and went very well, since they had no defences that could stand up to the US of A: no air defences, no real army.

But Russia do not hate the Ukraine the way the US hate any country that steal their natural resources that all belong to the US, and then squander the money on their own citizens. Russians have friends and relatives in the Ukraine.

Putin wants to demilitarise and denazify the Ukraine while minimising civilian casualties and damage to Ukrainian infrastructure, and this is much more difficult than US 'shock and awe' campaigns.

Obviously, Putin has no idea what he's doing, and is committing a heinous crime: the Ukraine and all their resources belong the US, and no one else.

So how to demilitarise and denazify without killing civilians or doing much damage to infrastructure? And why would anyone want to do that?

Putin does not seem to have a good answer to that problem.

Shortly after the invasion, the Russians took over much of the Donbass, Kharkov, and Kherson and held them for five months, until the Ukraine, given more advanced US weapons, forced the Russians out of Kharkov and out of about a third of Kherson, the first major Russian losses.

Does this mean the US have finally given the Ukrainians weapons with which they can drive the Russians out of the entire Ukraine? Or are Russia just trying to minimise Russian casualties and pulling back to more defensible positions which the Ukraine will attack with limited success and massive losses?