I wouldn’t say Russia is being destroyed, but Putin certainly has subjected them to internal damage that should have been unthinkable for a nuclear superpower.
Invaded by their own mercenary army. Even Moscow attacked. Invaded by Ukraine. Losing strategic assets like bombers. Drone attacks all over the place.
Idiotic. That’s why you don’t start a border war if you can’t achieve your objectives and end it quickly.
Now they’re slugging it out for three plus years against a country they didn’t think could last more than a month.
Your points are well made, perhaps destroyed is the wrong word, but being dismantled maybe a better word. I can see the Russian federation as it now stands ceasing to exist. Cracks are already showing.
Regions that have been neglected, used and abused to suppprt western Russia are starting to make noise.
There is a reason that “internal security” is on par with military spending. FSB now back to full blown KGB with their own prison system and outside the legal apparatus.
What probably always existed to some extent is now fully out in the open.
Russians now know that pitin cannot protect them, economy in trouble, war not going well, certainly not as planned