The Russians “invaded” as a negotiation strategy after witnessing the debacle of our botched pullout from Afghanistan and Biden's assurance that nothing would be done if there was a “minor incursion”.
The woke idiots in charge of the USA and NATO believed that this was a trap that they had set for the Russians. The Russian economy is a tiny fraction of the West's. California alone has over twice the GDP of Russia.
Russia has taken some pretty good punches from NATO's Ukrainian proxy army which has had access to $100s of Billions of advanced military hardware as documented daily by our resident cheerleading squad. But Russia has a different culture than the West and even Ukraine who are mostly from of the same ethnic origins.
Russia is a honey badger with a culture that is far tougher than the West. Putin is as popular as ever among Russian citizens, but more importantly he is more popular among the Russian oligarchs who really run the show. The most stunning achievements of Western sanctions was the creation of another 22 Billionaires in Russia in 2022, and an economy that is now outperforming most Western countries including England, France and Germany. They are prospering by expanding their export markets, while the West is floundering on the edge of recession.
Any realistic appraisal of what Bumbling Biden has wrought in this absolute boondoggle will conclude that he has botched this thing completely. The only problem is that one of his motives was to funnel money back into Democrat and leftist causes. By that nefarious measure this entire show has been a spectacular success. And it all has been done by distracting people with the “war” while they rob the taxpayers blind.
total, utter BS