But Russia collapses if it's pushed out of Ukraine. No, it just goes back into its corner with its tail between its legs for a while, like all colonial powers

But Russia collapses if it's pushed out of Ukraine. No, it just goes back into its corner with its tail between its legs for a while, like all colonial powers do. Whenever they choose to enmesh themselves in conflicts that are definitely not existential to them, or even in their coldly calculated rational interests. Just like the French, the British, and the US have all done, and as it has itself done, countless times (and quite recently).