Generally when we go to war we take out the power, the water, the gas, communications, before we even send in the ground troops. So the country we are at war with is in a tough situation without utilities. Then it’s easier to win. Although it costs us billions of dollars to rebuild everything.
I think Putin is keeping most things intact in Ukraine so Russia does not have to spend so much rebuild it. They are primarily targeting the military, government buildings and not citizens. You can see Putin is going around the perimeter of the country before moving troops in.
I think he is trying to keep Ukraine intact to save money rebuilding it later.
... but it is still some on else’s country. If they replace the government, nobody is going to acknowledge them as such - neither the citizens of that country or other world leaders.
Putin isn’t following traditional Russian military doctrine for this very reason and that’s why there’s a perception among the Twitter elites that he’s losing.
If he does start losing, he’s going to change tactics and the Twitter elites will see firsthand what traditional Russian military doctrine looks like.