Posting Russian propaganda is cringe, and sharing it is, too. Russia wiped out any gains they faced from this conflict after the initial push failed to steamro

Posting Russian propaganda is cringe, and sharing it is, too. Russia wiped out any gains they faced from this conflict after the initial push failed to steamroll Kyiv. By utilizing their armed forces against a conventional military capable of mounting anything more than an insurgency, Russia tipped their hand and let everybody know the military prowess the world had assumed they had was smoke and mirrors. Russia lost any chance of victory once the US decided to start offering overt aid. The US's military-industrial complex, without even wartime level ramp-up, has demonstrated the ability to keep Ukraine well enough equipped to maintain technological superiority indefinitely. Meanwhile Russia is raiding museums. The best case scenario for Russia at this point is to use their ability to prolong the conflict as a bargaining chip, possibly to keep control of Crimea. Meanwhile, the US gets an ally spitting distance from Moscow, and Russia is humiliated on the world stage. In the worst case, infighting within Moscow shatters Russia into a pile of disorganized warlord states. That's, of course, assuming the war remains conventional. If, as the author of this insipid piece suggests, a losing Moscow resorts to nuclear combat... Everybody dies. Moscow can't risk the US interpreting their nuclear strike on Ukraine as provocation of a first (second? eh) strike, so they would have to preemptively target the US. The US knows this so they would be firing everything we've got to try and knock out Russia's ability to retaliate. And we wouldn't just be hitting Russia. US doctrine says that in nuclear war, we target everybody who poses a threat. Millions of uninvolved Chinese would die. It's a shit show all around. Which is why it's a ridiculous farce of a scenario. Russia knows they lose a nuclear war, and they lose it far worse than "Oh, Moscow and its surrounding land are now a minor country", they lose it in a "Everything and everybody we ever cared about dies in nuclear fire" sort of way.