The humiliations of Russia’s military have largely overshadowed the failures of the FSB and other intelligence agencies.
Humiliations? What? You mean that taking Mariupol and capturing 2500 members of the Nazi fanatics knows as the AZOV battalion was really a humiliation? Are the Russians humiliated by their successful support of the Luhansk and Donetsk militias to push Ukrainian forces from the Donbas while killing an estimated 200,000 Ukrainian troops in less than six months? Sounds shameful to me. Perhaps Russia is humiliated by its failure to run out of precision guided missiles despite repeated predictions from western intelligence services that Russia was on the ropes.
How are your Sept 11th referendums coming along? Putin won’t cancel them because he’s winning, right?
Russia has been greatly humiliated, even if they succeed in their invasion, the world has seen how clumsily and inefficient it has all been.
Russia’s military has been exposed and its weapons and military/political leadership have been exposed, Russia is in a desperate struggle to do something that 6 months ago we all thought would be done in days with a super-efficient, modernized Russian Army and Air Force, and Navy.
Win or lose, the shine is off of Russia as a modernized mighty war machine.