Putin doubling down and still losing seems like a chance. Probably naively, I believe it is a chance for encompassing reforms. For the last Soviet remnants to b

Putin doubling down and still losing seems like a chance. Probably naively, I believe it is a chance for encompassing reforms. For the last Soviet remnants to be flushed out. I suspect almost all Russians below say 40 years of age are just done. They gaze west or onto their smartphones and see what live can be like. Not perfect either, but a huge step up. Yet the reigning elite is too entrenched still, which a decisive, including economical, defeat of Russia in Ukraine might change. Here is to hoping. (Naturally, the West also has an 'entrenched elite'; it's always greener, yadda yadda. Yet average western life is objectively much better than current Russian)