One thing that NATO has that Russia and Ukraine both don’t is a really good air force. If the US Air Force had been fighting in Ukraine, it would have quickly established air superiority over Russian forces and be able to bomb them at will, making it impossible to hold territory any more than Saddam Hussein’s army could. (Of course, Putin could have retaliated with nuclear weapons...)
One thing that NATO has that Russia and Ukraine both don’t is a really good air force. If the US Air Force had been fighting in Ukraine, it would have quickly established air superiority over Russian forces and be able to bomb them at will, making it impossible to hold territory any more than Saddam Hussein’s army could. (Of course, Putin could have retaliated with nuclear weapons...)
I do not know how good China’s air force is.