True. But Russia's main aim of the SMO was to bring UKR to the negotiating table. That worked until NATO intervened and scuttled the impending ceasefire agreement.
NATO hoped to degrade Russia more at the expense of many thousands of UKR lives and many billions of USD.
In the end, what will soon be achieved could have been achieved without bloodshed. But NATO was thirsty for blood.
“NATO hoped to degrade Russia”
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NATO was emboldened and bought into the Biden regime’s sanctions “strategy” which was supposed to bring Russia to its knees. How’d that work out? You don’t hear much about sanctions anymore.