Maybe Putin should read an economic rundown of the last year or so of WW2 and take serious notice. An economy and
workforce on its knees. No mechanical parts to be found - using wood in place of aluminium. Production being outstripped 5/1 by the Allies.
Oh, and a command structure so...
And every oil refinery, tank, missile launcher, truck and radar system that gets wasted in Russia, so the
squeeze on Russia just gets greater. Keep those fires burning lads and lasses! ;)
If that ever happened (Putin being elected in a "democratic" setting), I'll run the length of Western Road
in soiled underpants shouting "yes, we have no bananas"!
Indeed. When I watch the news, almost all elderly people (well a high percentage) love Putin because they've
been fed his bullsh*t propaganda for 20 years and look back at the 70s and 80s with a perverted sort of fondness. While that mentality persists, things I don't think will change...
I think we're not far off a tipping point with the war where Putin's authority will to be undermined when the
new military hardware starts coming along for the West. A stark realisation that the war cannot be won. A desperate search for a way out.
I hope I'm right.
Also, Putin didn't suddenly wake up one day and think "wouldn't it be nice to have all those countries back under our control - let's invade one". It's his long-held belief. So your argument falls down a bit there too.
Sooner or later surely we're (i.e., US, Europe etc) going to have to step in and stop this pri*k and his joke army in their tracks.
I can't see any way around it.