Sometimes I wonder what kinds of feelings Putin has been going through during this war. Supposedly Stalin was fairly paralyzed for a while when Hitler attacked and things weren't exactly going his way, and someone could possibly have replaced him, had anyone had enough courage to do so. Supposedly Stalin was worried about how he had screwed up, and that was a defensive war. Now Putin has an offensive war against a much smaller opponent, yet he's still doing very poorly. Gotta be stressful, to say the least (and no, I have no pity for him). The incompetence on the Russian side is just mindblowing, of which the Kursk operation is just the latest example.
In the end, the chances are that the whole war is just the dying struggles of an old superpower (and by dying I mean 'on the way to acceptance' and probably nothing more). Might even be the last struggle, depending on how things go. And no, smaller wars against small/poor countries don't really count (I'm assuming Ukraine is among the more advanced countries neighbouring Russia, even though from a western point of view it still has a ways to go).
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