The Putin plan.
Possess a bombed out Ukraine and sell his natural resources at 30% off to China.
No - get it right.
Putin’s plan was to push NATO AWAY from the Russian border.
Short term, yes, he has to sell his oil to India and China at lower rates and loses political power as his people suffer economically (which is how the West is playing its 5th generation warfare games)
But LONG term - he may have increased the Russian border and taken Ukrainian reserves which include large uranium deposits, one of the largest agricultural lands in Europe, increased access to the Black Sea and, of course, pushed NATO back. Used properly he can use those resources to further enrich the Russian people and get his political power back.
The BIGGER questions are -
Can he hold Ukraine? Does this become Russia’s Iraq or does Ukraine become successfully integrated?
Does he keep going into NATO territory? (I’m thinking no here but then I didn’t think he’d go into Ukraine either)
(and isn’t it interesting that nobody on either side seems to be concerned about the increase of COVID infections in light of needing a 5th booster?)
His plan is to recreate Russia.
The west will have to fight him. However we don’t have the means to now.
Or you will see all Baltic and most Scandinavian nations fall. Realistically, Latvia and Estonia have no chance. Poland and Finland have an outside chance, but I expect the line will be the east side of the Aegean up through Germany. Unless the West figures out what bathroom to use real quick