So let's recap:

In February 2022, #VDV forces landed at #Hostomel airport to pave the way for #Russia's quick decapitation of #Kyiv.

Apparently some of the #Russian #Paratroopers made restaurant reservations in Kyiv (as their joke), such was their certainty.

And, nobody thought #Russia would be this stupid, but if they did it, the world also thought #Ukraine would rapidly crumble.

How could they not? Russia was a major power and Ukraine was poor and puny.

Instead the world got a remarkable demonstration of a people grimly united in dread purpose: not only the preservation of their country, but their lives, such is #Russia's #genocidal #mafia ways.

They rose to the occasion in virtually cinematic terms.

#Zelensky, a #television #comedian, became a #heroic #statesman. The #Ukrainian people used their grit, resolve, and spirit to jerry rig a #resistance that made "mighty" Russia look like a joke. The "great statesman" #Putin became the comedian.

Fast forward to today:

#Georgia is boiling over with #protest and stubborn #political #resistance to the #corruption of their country by #Russia.

Another #Euromaidan brewing, Mr. #Putin?

The #Russian #economy is in trouble. The #Ruble drops, #interestrates are sky high, #inflation: you can't kill or maim hundreds of thousands of your men on folly while directing a huge part of your economy to #shells and #tanks and put that on the national credit card, without serious long term ramifications.

Even if you take all of #Ukraine tomorrow. You're looking at years or even decades of pain.