Are you talking about Iraq or Ukraine? Are you talking about allegedly failing (remember #1 goal, no NATO, accomplished) for two months or abject failure for two decades?
Ukraine will be allied with NATO.
And Putin’s aims varied , first it was NATO, then a de militarised Ukraine, then killing nazis.
Lately the Russian press has said all Ukrainians are nazis, so they need to kill em all
“Ukrainianism is an artificial anti-Russian construct that has no civilisational substance of its own, a subordinate element of an extraneous and alien civilisation,” wrote a RIA Novosti columnist earlier this week. The “re-education” of Ukraine could take a generation, he wrote, adding that “besides the highest ranks, a significant number of common people are also guilty of being passive Nazis and Nazi accomplices”.
Even the name Ukraine must be erased, the article argued.
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan claimed on TV that Ukrainian people ‘have turned out to be engulfed in the madness of nazism’.
“To my horror, to my regret, a considerable portion of the Ukrainian people have turned out to be engulfed in the madness of nazism,” said Margarita Simonyan, the head of the RT news network, during a nationally broadcast talkshow on the NTV channel. “That it is on such a massive scale!”
Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian prime minister, earlier this week declared that Ukraine would face the same fate as Nazi Germany, an opinion that closely resembled the one written in the column published by RIA Novosti just days earlier.
“It should not be surprising that Ukraine, which has been transformed mentally into the Third Reich … will suffer the same fate,” Medvedev wrote in a message shared on Telegram. “That’s what her fate is, that Ukraine!”