Also - you can almost guarantee that Putin wouldn't have gone forward with this if he knew how it was going to turn out. His military looks awful, he's losing a bunch of people, a ton of equipment, his country has been sanctioned back to the 1970s, the US is preferring to get oil from Iran and Venezuela over Russia and the EU is trying to cutback 2/3rds of its energy imports by the end of the year. Its not like Putin is coming out of this with a big W if Nato doesn't get involved militarily.
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