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As a matter of fact I think this is not how we should be perceiving Ukraine, and in the present condition it would likely have been able to overwhelm any European military except perhaps France and Poland one on one. Consider that Europeans are not actually Aryan superhumans, their pretty exercises would amount to meme material in a week of fighting a real large scale war, and they have very little in the way of materiel too. They are concerned about Russia for a good reason: they are in fact weak.
What are you basing this on? I dont really know much in that regard, but e.g. noone has air superiority in the current war, and thats something I would think the europeans are good at. Of course, a lot of european countries just arent that big individually, and certainly Germany would need time to get its infantery running, but getting overwhelmed? And France has nukes.
Experience in modern warfare, army size, operational logistics. Western aviation is unlikely to be a game-changer.
I do not account for nukes.
Yes. Great power should be able to easily overrun small shithole country in three day special operation (and then get bored by decades of guerilla warfare and go home).
The implications of late Eastern European events are:
Either Russia is shithole country too or Ukraine is Great Power too.
My radical thesis is that both are shitholes but not really militarily inept ones in the way people might imagine.
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