Is Russia "fine"? They still haven't managed to catch up economically or in development levels to the developed Western countries (and the fact that former East

Is Russia "fine"? They still haven't managed to catch up economically or in development levels to the developed Western countries (and the fact that former Eastern bloc and even Soviet countries have shows that the gap wasn't impossible to overcome). They're also in a war they cannot win losing tens of thousands of men they can ill afford to lose, and only because they're stuck in the past politically and geopolitically.