On the plus side, 62% of Russian companies are at least marginally profitable, and not working for free or slipping into debt.

(This percentage is falling, rapidly.)

Arguably, if Ukraine had either better surface-to-air missiles or better long range air-to-air missiles, it would be hard to imagine Russia wanting to continue the conflict for long.

Hard to imagine Russia without the ability to launch glide bombs, but it will happen, eventually.

WarTranslated posts:

"Russian Z-blogger Romanov cautiously admits that the losses of Putin’s army in Ukraine indeed amount to 30,000 killed per month. Ukrainians are steadily moving toward the figure of 50,000 that was mentioned by the new Defense Minister Fedorov."

You can call it a bad day...
Or you can, quite understandably, think this increased level of damage to US planes and helicopters makes perfect sense, if they are focused on softening up Iran for a possible invasion.

If it happens this weekend, it would, by definition, not have as many possible troops involved. Maybe 6000, possibly less if just the Marines. Other Marines are reportedly still enroute.

For what it's worth, this is where the jet was reportedly downed.