Agree..NATO is a shell of itself using big USA to support and protect. If Putin is smart, he will keep his Ukrainian gains and sit pretty till something else needs to done. Meanwhile he can rearm and wait for any other invasion to come from outsiders....Ukraine (eastern half) seems to be done.IMHO.
Don't you think that he ought to first win the war and complete the invasion and annexation of Ukraine before planning his victory celebrations and post-war strategies?
Losing more than a third of a million soldiers (comparable to TOTAL U.S. deaths in WWII) has got to put a kink in Putin's victory parade.
Regards,