[GBA]

Putin is a fool. Instead of using the rising tide of Russia’s post Soviet prosperity to raise Russia’s standard of living and Russia’s standing in the world, he spent that money to raise another yet another invading orc army of conquest.

Stupid is as stupid does, so Putin then sent his orc army on a fool’s errand to take Ukraine, thus ending the rising tide of Russian prosperity.

As the tide of prosperity begin to recede from Russia, it financed and propelled Putin’s conquest of Ukraine forward, swiftly at first, but ever more slowly as the tide ran out, eventually leaving them stranded where they are.

Inevitably, the cycles of life repeat and so now the tide has begun to rise again and the Russian orc army will not be able to swim against it.

The tide that had carried them forward will now carry what’s left of them back to where they came from.

[Svartalfiar]

Stupid is as stupid does, so Putin then sent his orc army on a fool’s errand to take Ukraine, thus ending the rising tide of Russian prosperity.

From a Russian standpoint, it wasn't a dumb idea at first. At the top, there's a willful blindness to the amount of corruption and skimming; if Russia's military had been as capable as they should be based on $$$ they thought they spent, it probably would have been over in a month or two. Russia would have half or all of Ukraine by now, and everyone would have forgotten about it by the time Trump came in.