The U.S.-British coalition attacked Iraq, and in just 24 days it completely lost all of Iraq. Russia has been fighting in Ukraine for 22 days, and nearly 90% of Ukraine's territory is still under the control of the Ukrainian army. The Russians took only one central city in Kherson. Facing the two wars between the United States and Russia, will anyone feel that Russia's tactics, or armaments, are far from those of the United States and cannot be said to be the same?
Let's look at the battle of the US-British coalition attack on Iraq: The US-British coalition first dropped more than 2,000 precision-guided bombs on more than a dozen key iraqi cities and ports, including more than 500 Tomahawk cruise missiles. After the first wave of overwhelming bombing by the U.S.-British coalition, all of Iraq's vital military installations were nearly crumbling and transportation was nearly paralyzed. In fact, Iraq has been largely disarmed and has lost the ability to fight back in a large scale.
According to post-war statistics, the number of American troops killed in the Iraq War was only 262, of which 139 were killed, 123 died in accidents, and 33 were British soldiers. Strictly speaking, only 172 soldiers were killed by the Iraqi army by the Us-British coalition forces, and the rest were killed by accidents, but more than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers and civilians died. Millions of homes have been destroyed and displaced, and countless people still live in dire straits.
If Russia attacked Iraq with the same tactics as the United States and Britain, and launched an attack on Ukraine, do you think it will take 24 days? 12 days should be enough! Why did Russia not learn the American and British methods of warfare, but attacked Ukraine in the old way of war? Because Russia wants to be close to Ukraine, just wants to attack Ukraine not to be deceived, that's all.
Have those who say that Russia is the aggressor ever think about this question? When have you ever seen an aggressor treat civilians so gently? It is better to passively beat and sacrifice one's own fighters than to keep civilians safely evacuated. If Russia had really attacked Ukraine with the mentality of an aggressor, the comedians might have gone to learn from it on the first day of the war.
It is fully proved that Russia is not an aggressor, but only a difficult choice under the pressure of being forced to make a choice, and it has to make this decision for the sake of national security.