At the start of this operation, Putin was hoping for a negotiated settlement. Thanks to Joe Biden, what should have been was not to be and hundreds of thousands died. The end state will be a Ukraine that does not exist or is unrecognizable.
But wait, there's more!
Putin tried for over 7 years to get the Minsk accords recognized, right up to Dec. 2021. In that respect, he was like Trump, naive. The west had no intention of ever making peace in Ukraine. The west used all that time to arm Ukraine and make fortifications for war.
Merkel and Macron and others even bragged about how stupid Putin was for believing them. Putin finally apologized to the people there and said he was sorry that he didn't intervene earlier and admitted that he was indeed navie.
died. The end state will be a Ukraine that does not exist or is unrecognizable.
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Apparently now Russia is quickly building up manufacturing capacity for war equipment by increasing production at existing plants for the short term and building additional capacity for the longer term