The article, from you vehement reaction, must have struck and nerve and be well over target. Sorry for all you comrades that have given their lives or been grievously wounded because of ‘Shorty’ Putin’ delusion.
“Until the Russian army recovers, it will fall on the Russian navy and Russian Aerospace Forces to provide some sort of global power projection capabilities.“
That is a quote from the article.
When was the Russian Air Force and Navy ever anything but that? Of course it is the Air Force and Navy that does projection. You can’t march the Russian Army to Venezuela.
But in a larger sense this sort of report is what we can expect from the media regardless of outcome. A Ukraine military junta taking control, killing all the CIA and MI6 assets on site in Kiev, and working with their university classmates in the Russian senior military cadre, is the most likely end to the war. Russia will have a pro Russian government in place composed entirely of Ukraine military, and our media will describe this as a great victory because Russia will announce it can demobilize.