Putin has a terminal illness and is freaked about creating a legacy before he dies that he restored the glory of the Russian empire.
Our intelligence completely missed the boat in terms of Putin's intentions and his military's complete incompetence.
Putin's ploy has completely backfired as Nato is not much stronger and will soon have members a lot closer to Moscow.
The Russian economy will be set back decades.
Ukraine is on its back heels for the moment but Russia is running out of weapons and men and will be retreating in a few weeks while Ukraine is being resupplied with superior weapons.
Although the Ukrainians I know were great friends with Russians before the war they now hate them.
There is no fucking way in hell Putin will ever be able to occupy a country where 44 million people hate him and Russia.
Other occupied states in the RussIan Federation (which are ethnically different from Russians) will begin to revolt as the Russian economy implodes.
We can now turn our total defense posture toward the real threat in China.