Is a Pyrrhic victory really a victory?
If Putin manages to take Ukraine at the cost of tens of thousands of dead young Russians who only months ago were drinking beer, dancing in clubs and playing video games
plus large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians casualties
and destroying beautiful European cities like Kiev and Kharkiv and Odessa
earning the enmity of the world, don’t count out China ultimately distancing itself from Putin
His only allies Venezeuala, Syria, Cuba, Myanmar
Reducing his own people to mere subsistence living in a total police state
If Putin gets Ukraine, he controls all its oil and gas supplies. Europe will have to bow and scrape to him because they stupidly banked on “green” energy
At which point Putin decides the rest of the world can join Russia in living a miserable existence and launches the nukes.
As opposed to living in a TechnoFascist Dicktatership where Alex Majorjerkass or Chrystia "Slaveland" Freeland can freeze your bank account tomorrow if you look at them wrong...