Russia has lost hundreds of thousands of young men to a foreign colonization adventure, and almost a million more are casualties, while its economy slowly collapses, it's most-lucrative trade markets melt away, it's energy supplies are dwindling, inflation is stubbornly high, and it turns itself into a national pariah reduced to accepting aid from North Korea and being turned into China's vassal state.

All while it becomes more-rapidly islamicized than even France, but is afraid to do anything about it because so many of its troops are Muslim. The Russian government and the imams (and Orthodox leadership) are in cahoots, encouraging young men to march into battle against the infidels, Nazis, whatever.

If this is winning, is the question. I think Russia has taken a wrong turn and will struggle to ever recover from this. Every day it fights, takes it further down this road.

The EU was demilitarizing and launching massive trade deals with Russia, when Russia first invaded the Krim, but the invasion quickly reversed all of that. I hope it was worth it, for Russia.

We shall see.