Yawn. It's war. Nothing more. You're not fighting it. If you were? You'd either be a coward or a patriot. The design is always from opportunity and agenda. But it's a sacrifice to any objectives. They are often duty.

However you're condemning those efforts? As some other ritual. But they won't lose and walk away. You're missing the severity of it.

This is Russia was always Russia. To be defeated at home would be unthinkable for it. It ain't somewhere else like Afghanistan.

Yes geopolitically has incited heaps of opposition and agenda.

But what result do you forsee?

Somebody will lose here, or terms will be drawn up. Those terms are no where near to being agreed. In the meantime it runs a greater risk of a larger war.

While it drags it has caused and prompted a chain of events that are profiting and inciting change. How much more does the West get involved? If it does it gets direct.

There are only so many scenarios where Russia can lose.

Withdrawal not likely without substantial loss, not after it has mobilised. Head of state being replaced and a failure adopts a different approach. Not really after mobilising. Protocol runs mostly the same until it goes back to its assembly. But it has mobilised. In Russian it's quite unthinkable. Historically it has been bloodied far worse, and kept fighting. Technically it hasn't even begun to commit too those margins.

So a truce will have to be agreed and one Russia has an advantage or it will press until it cannot. It historically has often meant to the last recruit. We aren't talking Afghanistan here. It was completely different. It wasn't at home.

There is as you say a vastly different strategy being played out. Where as this drags it incites change and technology from competing opportunity. It is suspect. Does it simply drag until terms declare another Cold War. Carving up the hog sacrificed, Ukraine? Or will it all erupt. That danger sooner drags far more conflict into it.