maynarkh , 3 months ago

It’s not hyperbole. Russia’s stated political goal was to reclaim Ukraine into their sphere of influence, strengthen a new eastern bloc and discourage its neighbours from joining NATO.

Ukraine is at best pending, and there was an attempted coup, a metric fuckton of military equipment losses, and it’s still very much up in the air.

They lost CSTO with not being able to back their allies up in the Armenian-Azerbaijani war.

They also got Finland and Sweden to join NATO, so they have more NATO borders than ever, and on top of that, Europe is waking the fuck up and remilitarizing, whereas NATO was treated as a relic before.

Russia lost a ton, and it is a good question whether it will gain anything out of this whole thing.