All angles pointing to a Putin defeat however external factors might get him before the desperate peace agreement. Oil is about to cut through $90, anything close to 60 will starve even the protected Moscow and St.Petersberg elite. Chinese and Indians must be getting oil at cost price now. Unpaid real war heroes Byryats, Chechens, Stans etc with newly acquired fighting skills will take to the streets, oil down or not. Putin Tsar dream might come true soon, this time not in the form of Peter the Great but Nicholas ll who was dumped on to a sea of bayonets. Putin however might take refuge in unwilling friend Xi.
