Bank Run Ocurring in Russia

They still have an airforce. I have no idea how at this point, but it's still able to mount operations. But you're right, NATO's most important contribution has arguably been intel.

The "ghost of Kyiv" thing took off because Russia's first-day losses were so wild. Of course, the logical explanation was that Ukraine knew where the Russians were thanks to US intel. But people are r-slurred and neurodivergent.

Highly unlikely. What's even less likely is that the Ukies could field M1s. Those tanks are radically different from everything in the former Warsaw Pact. There's zero interchangeability of parts. The Abrams needs a 4-man crew while every tank that Ukraine has needs 3. They're meant to be used differently. Any of the T-whatever tanks are meant to avoid getting hit. An Abrams is meant to take hits.

You might already know this, but someone else might learn something: the 3-man crews are related to why Russian tanks lose their turrets when they get hit. To make the hull smaller, the Soviet designers did away with the loader and automated the job, storing the ammunition in a circle around the turret (a bit like one of those old-school machine guns with a round drum). This did make the tanks smaller and harder to hit. But it also meant that they couldn't build the failsafes that an Abrams has for ammunition, so if the tank does get hit, the entire magazine detonates and blows the turret off.

It also only makes the tanks harder to hit for other tanks, which need a clear line of sight on the sides. Javelins don't have that limitation. So in a world where ATGMs exist, the only thing that the auto-loader accomplishes is that when a tank gets got, it's 3 men dying instead of 4.