Russia is having internal difficulties, just as US did during the Vietnam War.
I expect internal dissent will win this war. That is, if nukes don’t fly first.
There has been plenty of dissent.
The people and the DUMA were together frustrated about Putin’s multiple efforts to seek negotiation with Elinsky, and with his maddening restraint.
Putin let the world digest his reasons for liberating the UKR border regions, in two different speeches, and time to observe who it is behind the encroachment on Russia’s southwestern border.
Those with ears to hear and eyes to see could not dispute the facts and the history.
So it was all blacked out in the US news and journals.