That can be good, because other Nation might think twice.
But what we see is the biggest ever propaganda coup falling apart. Russia had built the picture of a conventional super power and the picture of a energy super power. They did that extremely well. Nobody would touch Russia because of both. Russia made a ton of money, rich, untouchable and everybody was kissing its oligarchies left and right. But it was all a propaganda facade.
Now we know this natural resource empire is just hot air, Russia is not really needed.
Its military and all its wonder weapons, is a joke. thousands of tanks, ten thousands of arty, ammo supplies for a decade, gigantic air force, thousands of super rockets. You name it, Russia was able to paint a picture, that made it equal with the West and we believed it. I have to say again, because the Soviet did that, too.
But opposite to the Soviets, Russia started to believe in its own propaganda, lost touch with reality. Money can do that, too, and naturally power.
At one time Putin lost the grip on reality, at the heights of his power, where he was able to play every head of government, like Merkel, Macron or Trump, or Obama.
They all fell for the Russian propaganda.
To me that is the most important revelation of this war, the picture Russia drew of itself and made it one the most powerful countries in the world for decades.
Stunning
What really surprises me that Russia, actually believed in its own propaganda and did not actually know or believe or understand its own short comings.
I have to admire how Russia manipulated the world, that was masterful, till it invaded the Ukraine and that curtain came crashing down.
