Just as Great Britain imploded after WW2, the US will implode under the burden of unpayable and unserviceable debt. Russia knows it and waits for the dead man to fall on his stupid overspending face.
Russia is spot on about finding the existence of a hostile albeit smaller country non-negotiable and unacceptable. As if to underscore this point, Hamas did Israel. It couldn't have come at a better moment.
Hamas did Russia a great service by illustrating how that works. A little sh*ithole with two million of dirt-poor unemployed illiterates is all of a sudden an existential threat to mighty Israel with its world's best army, nukes, and total support from the world's #1 superpower.
Putin knows all of this and that is why 500,000 Ukrainians are dead now. And then there is this brilliant Novi's Z-P=0 Z ignored.
Mr. Z, you are a moron and I am a genius who would be better for Ukraine that you, a-hole.