Commentary Given the manpower and equipment advantages possessed by the Russian Army and Air Force, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kremlin cronies expected Ukraine’s defenses to swiftly collapse and capitulate. The quick victory script read something like this: A precision Spetsnaz assassination kills President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as airstrikes smash Ukrainian air defenses and Russian paratroopers capture key transportation and communication nodes. Within 24 hours Russian mechanized combined arms battle groups smash into Kharkiv and Kyiv. Russian tanks line the cities’ central squares as bewildered and frightened Ukrainians cower and capitulate. Fair bet Putin calculated such a demonstration of fast, deadly Russian military power would send the message the world must once again fear Russia. But it didn’t happen. Russia underestimated Ukrainian will. Putin overestimated the readiness of his own troops—or perhaps his generals did? Three weeks on, Ukraine’s sweat-and-blood peoples’ resistance continues. We’ve witnessed case after case of Russian …