According to Napoleon, wars require just three things: "money, money and money". - this is probably not a true quote. "The sinews of war are infinite money" - this is attributed to Cicero and is probably true, " The first and most imperative necessity in war is money" - from Ida Turbel.... well I am sure you get the idea.
Do you really think that money can motivate people for war? We don't live in the middle ages where countries and/or Lords were hiring a team of warriors to fight against their enemy.
Ask yourself, why would someone risk their own live today when he lives comfortably at home with his wife and kids?
The only case when WAR will succeed is when people are strongly united and share the same ideas and thoughts. You need no fear in war, the idea that unites the people must be something that will make them super confident around the idea that they'll succeed and they'll get rid of all anxious thoughts.
Just a reminder: Pervitin played a huge role for Germans in world war 2. This substance made them enormously energetic, super confident and fearless. This is an artificial state of mind but at the moment that worked like fairy dust but the cons of this were psychosis, hallucinations, heart attacks, strokes.
My question to the forum is how does Putin intend to make the war of aggression against Ukraine be eventually profitable?
Putin is mad! Psychopathic! Crazy guy! Putin wants to revive the empire of the Soviet Union, he wants to be the most strong and influential on the earth. He and oligarchs that stand with him lose nothing in this war, they have a comfortable life and zero sanctions will ever affect their life. All of these sanctions & restrictions affect Russian people right now and the idea behind this is to make them say no to putin and prove it with live actions but I highly doubt that will happen. Putin is a person who will do everything to keep a power and he will declare war with his people if the situation requires.