The world now sees Putin as a incompetent fool.

Oh you shown everyone you dont give a shit about treatys but they still dont fear you as much once everyone had seen your army is big but still a joke? Surprised Pikachu face

This is the funny part. Russia had US in a very bad spot. US had just withdrawn from Afganistan, it was internationally very unpopular. Donald Trump eventhough he lost the election, has just been able to rally the poor white support base towards russian interests. Putin had significant support in Europe and America on lots of issues. EU and NATO was having serious internal problems and questions being raised for their existence. Ukrainians still had some russian supporters.Sweden and Finland were neutral countries allowing space from NATO.

After the invasion everything has backfired. Everything has gone completely the opposite way than Russia predicted. Suddenly US seems essential globally to keep international peace. The American support base were put in a bad spot try to defend Putin's actions.EU and NATO have gotten much stronger and mostly will be a bigger threat to Russia. Ukrainians have become so united, that Russia will have a blood enemy at its borders for decades to come. Sweden and Finland are going to join NATO essentially making Russia more vulnerable.

Putin fucked around and found out. There is no positive way to get out from this. His economy will be in ruins for decades even if the Chinese and Indians completely support them, which I don't think they will and they can. Their wealthiest markets are no longer accessible. Diplomatically they have been designated as a terrorist state by EU. Everything that can go wrong is going wrong.

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That already happened

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