Ignore anyone telling you the russian army is strong. They cam do damage but their strength is grossly overestimated and part of propaganda used for demoralising the enemy. They are peasants with guns.

I believe it!

Could you provide a source for that statement?

I know that the Shia majority did not support Saddam Hussein, but does this directly translate to them supporting a US invasion?

Petraeus mentions it in this recent article and everything I've found supports what he said:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/02/da...

> Ukraine is not only bigger but some 50 percent more populous than Iraq, and the Iraqi population included many millions—Kurds, Christians, Yezidis, Shabak, and many of the Shia—who broadly supported the coalition forces throughout our time there. Only a minority of the Iraqi population comprised or supported the Sunni extremists and insurgents and Iranian-supported Shia militia. Though they did, to be sure, prove to be very formidable enemies.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/10...

> "Iraq, today, 10 years on from the war, from the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, is not what the Iraqi people hoped for and expected. We hoped for an inclusive democracy, an Iraq that is at peace with itself and at peace with its neighbors," Salih said. "To be blunt, we are far from that."

> "But," he added, "it's important to understand where we started from. ... Literally hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were sent to mass graves. Ten years on from the demise of Saddam Hussein, we're still discovering mass graves across Iraq. And Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein—the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein."

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797722034/what-young-iraqis-w...

The Iraqis were under a dictator, the Ukrainians elected their President.

That's what I'm saying. I'm hoping that the Russians are going to have a much tougher time in Ukraine since they are not welcome.