Russian exit

[busker]

Putin is ensuring that Russia reverts...

Another 20 year debacle in the making for Russia, ensuring only death and destruction.

Paraphrasing Ephesians 6:12-
"...our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the powers of this dark world..."

That’s what I had thought, but I’d expected the US to be less profiteering. It hasn’t, and in the process has ceded whatever advantage the war initially afforded.
The Russian economy has shrunk, but less than Europe’s.
With China as an ally, Russia doesn’t need the west. There’s nothing the west does that China can’t do as well, if not better. And the China - Russia combine is unbeatable.
Economically, most of the world excluding the “west” is with Russia. Ukraine is not their war, and Russia is not an existential threat to them.

There’s only one way this war ends - Ukraine devastated, Russia a bit weatherbeaten but managing, Europe economically hollowed out, and the US doing well.