Unfortunately, Russia will triumph in the end because the West is rotten to the core. It's easy to point to examples of Russian corruption, but the hard truth is that the West is now so dysfunctional and divided, so spineless and so complacent, that even a rag-tag third-rate military force can succeed provided the dictator in charge maintains course. Putin, after the disaster of Feb/March 2022, believed that all he needed to do was wait out the West's feeble response to his invasion of Ukraine while simultaneously spreading anti-Ukraine propaganda. And guess what? The neofascist US Republicans and the lapdog Orban have proven the validity of this belief. NATO is a pathetic empty joke, the USA is impotent thanks to Republican fascism, and the period of peace we've had since the end of WWII is coming to a far more rapid end than fat ignorant stupid Westerners can imagine. Frankly, we deserve what's about to engulf us.