Glad to know you are revisiting expectations. It will take a few iterations of "victories by retreating" until you find out that war is costly, but for everyone. The only winner on this war is the US.
"He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day." This is especially true when it is strategically planned... Soledar.
The US will win, but not the way most people think. The US will win by its people being released from the warmongers among their leaders... the warmongers who are creating the Ukraine war.
Initially, I thought Russia will stop its aggression when 200K of its soldiers will be dead, but now I think it will take 3-5M of dead
Russians to stop this clusterfuck.
This war will continue for another 5-10 years or until the "Star-eek" dies or is killed.
Russians can't afford to lose this war, so they will probably all die before giving up
I don't think all would be that stupid or brave enough, but it seems you might be right.
Right now, they fear their tsar more than their own death.
One thing is for sure, most if not all Rashists will have to be eliminated. Just like the Nazis in Germany during WWII.
Russia, Iran, and North Korea's combined production capacity is no match against the Western military powerhouse.
This war will last for as long as Peter the Gopnik is alive.