The war in Ukraine only drags on for so long because of the refusal of the west (partly tachnical issues, partly political hesitation) to equip Ukraine with modern weapons in sufficient quantities.
They aren't depleted. They've suffered 300K casualties, they have 24,700,000 left of fighting age. Also keep in mind Russia has no qualms about putting women in front line combat roles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrain...
Also, Iran seems like they want to get involved. They've been selling Russia arms during the conflict. They have about 17 million people of fighting age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_global_manpower_fit_fo...
>do it in a weekend
They said that about the US Civil War
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-war-in-america/april-1861...
And WWI
https://www.theworldwar.org/exhibitions/over-christmas
By WWII, we realized it wouldn't be a short war. We seem to have forgotten. Also Russia has a lot of nukes, you know what MAD stands for right?
Best case we're probably looking at a Phyrric victory.
Without equipment, logistics and ammo to support it it's a dead weight. Also, it's very interesting that you omitted Gulf War, which would be the most similar conflict in terms of power dynamics. 4th by strength military in the world in war against large coalition of countries that is led by USA.
Russia is an industrial country. They managed to build more tanks than anybody in WWII and this was while being invaded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_industry_in_World_War_I...
>Also, it's very interesting that you omitted Gulf War, which would be the most similar conflict in terms of power dynamics.
Most of the Iraqi soldiers surrendered as soon as they saw coalition forces. Only the Republican Guard remained to fight and they were only around 75K. I doubt the Russians will surrender en masse like the Iraqi regular army did.