The Blitzkrieg has become a quagmire. Had the Blitzkrieg succeeded, Vlad would have been able to present a fait accompli to the world, endure some more years of

The Blitzkrieg has become a quagmire. Had the Blitzkrieg succeeded, Vlad would have been able to present a fait accompli to the world, endure some more years of sanctions and the world would move on. Pretty much what he pulled off in Chechnya, North Ossetia, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk. Here we see the Chinese seeing the West has firmly turned against Putin and that China will be better off disavowing themselves from Putin. The article impresses me as a dispassionate summary of the possible outcomes.