“It will be like the proverbial dog that succeeds in catching the car.”
That one is getting old.
“Now there in stuck with administrating a country full of people that despise them.”
The Russians have a history of not caring that the people of a country they dominate despises them.
“The Russians have a history of not caring that the people of a country they dominate despises them.”
True, but they face a well armed country that is upset with them and the Russian forces are very atrophied.
True, but their ability to extract it will require billions in infrastructure costs to rebuild. Oil and gas is their primary income and once you shut down a well it is ridiculously expensive to revive it. Most of the technology for that infrastructure is provided from the West. Even now they are cannibalizing some of their passenger airliners to keep others flying because they can't produce the necessary parts on their own. They're really screwed. And, I wonder what the rest of the western world will make of another Holodomor in full display on the web.