Something has to give, and if history is any guide, it won't be the Russians. What on earth are you talking about? Russia has yielded a whole bunch of times o

Something has to give, and if history is any guide, it won't be the Russians. What on earth are you talking about? Russia has yielded a whole bunch of times of course, going way back to the Crimean War - often to countries much smaller than itself. BTW that particular war ended with the Black Sea fully demilitarized, its military and civilian institutions discredited - and 3 church bells from Sevastopol hung up in Arundel Castle, England, as trophies. Even WW 2 probably would have gone the same way, had it not been for Lend Lease. And now it's attempting to fight a war of aggressive occupation a country with a quarter of its population. So far it has lost 50 percent of the territory it initially sized. Just 18 months in, there's already been a mutiny which forced the current Tsar to flee Moscow. If history is any guide, this definitely isn't going to end well for them.