But of course Russia is not a great power. Prior to Feb 24 NATO...

But of course Russia is not a great power. Prior to Feb 24 NATO didn't want to have much to do with Ukraine either.

This whole war is about the inability of one man to adapt to the realities of the present, that is the information age.

From there on end his delusions of 17th Century empire has prompted him to put good monetary after bad and destroy hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides of the border. But to a narcissistic psychopath, "we have lost nothing".