“You are right, this was obviously where Russia expected to be 3+ years into his SVO😎”
I looked, cannot find a link as to ANY timetable for this war. Perhaps you can. The best that I can do is agree with you, but only if the war was being waged against Ukraine, rather than NATO. Once it became a war against NATO, then I doubt Russia had any thoughts of it ending quickly.
Let me see if I understand you. No timetable, but it would have been over sooner if NATO had just kept their noses out of Russia’s invasion of a sovereign country?
Sound about right?