I saw this being a disastrous outcome from before the start. The reason being how Putin rearranged government operations.
That is, during the communist years, the Russian balance of government power (legislative, executive, and judicial in the US), was a “three legged stool” of the communist party, the KGB, and the military. When one “leg” got too long, the other two would cut it down to size.
Since the communist party is effectively out, Putin, himself a KGB man, decided to make the KGB (now FSB) supreme at the expense of the army. Not the best idea, as the FSB and the army do things in very different ways.
Of major impact was the purging of the Russian equivalent of the Pentagon. Truthfully, it did need purging, but then he set the FSB, not the army to rebuild it, something they were ill equipped to do.
That is why the most recent invasion of Ukraine has been such a foul up. Old, ill-maintained equipment. Green soldiers wearing hand-me-down uniforms. Terrible logistics. And worst of all, FSB command and control.
If Z isn’t to busy making gay sex marriage legal maybe he could find time to negotiate a cease fire and save ukranian lives for a change.
https://twitter.com/AmySpiro/status/1498085663786344452
Remaking? There is nothing remaking about losing - decisively, as the Ukies and their string pullers - USA - are doing. It’s as old as warfare. One side wins -Russia, and one side loses - us. Ukraine? Whatz dat?
Then why are they dying by the gross loads?
The only thing they are winning is a propaganda war.