NATO bigger and stronger, Russian economy being devoted to things that are destroyed, shells, missiles, tanks,soldiers. Crimea which was largely given up as lost by a weak world is under constant attack by Ukraine to recover its territory and people.
And the absurdity of Putin's Plan, future weapons for Ukraine partly paid for by Russia.
Russia was going well, prior to the invasion, had good economic links with Europe, a balancing relationship with the world, gradually moving up the technology chain... now a leaper
