When Vlad invaded Ukraine he told us he had three objectives, these are his own self-proclaimed measures of success:
Demilitarize Ukraine
De-nazify Ukraine
Protect Russian-speaking Ukrainians
Putin's Scorecard:
The "demilitarization" of Ukraine? In the six months of war Ukraine has received the most modern Western-made weapons worth tens of billions of dollars that it did not have before. Just the latest tranche for weapons, air defense systems, surface-to-air missiles, radars and artillery from the U.S. government was valued at $2.98 billion.
Denazification of Ukraine? It seems that no one except the Russian Chekists doing reconnaissance has seen them, and if someone else did see some Nazis, there were about as many of them in Ukraine as there are on Moscow’s Pushkin Square on Adolf Hitler's birthday. None of the dozens of journalists from around the world who broadcast their reports from Ukraine have met any Nazis or fascists.
Protecting the Russian-speaking population of the eastern and southern regions? Where were they protected? — in the almost completely destroyed city of Mariupol, where more than 89% of the population considered Russian their spoken language? Or in Kharkiv, which has been mercilessly bombed for week after week, killing civilians, and where 95% of the population speak (spoke?) Russian? Or Mykolaiv, where over 50% of the population, according to the census, speak Russian as their mother tongue, and which is being destroyed by cluster bombs.
So, the first, second and third goals were not met.
Field Marshall Dukkha and Colonel Moon also hollered at us that Putin aimed to roll back "U.S. dominance" in Eastern Europe and push back NATO away from Russia's borders.
^^Did Putin at least achieve that goal?
It certainly doesn’t look like it. A year before the war, in February 2021, there were 4,650 soldiers and officers under NATO command, and now there are almost ten times as many — 40,000. In the near future, the number of NATO troops will increase to 300,000. This, military analysts say, is the largest increase in NATO strength since the end of the Cold War. The border between Russia and NATO countries also doubled after Finland and Sweden joined the alliance — from 1,207 to 2,575 km.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/09/01/six-months-of-warwhat-putin-wanted-what-putin-got-a78699
Demilitarize Ukraine
De-nazify Ukraine
Protect Russian-speaking Ukrainians
Putin's Scorecard:
The "demilitarization" of Ukraine? In the six months of war Ukraine has received the most modern Western-made weapons worth tens of billions of dollars that it did not have before. Just the latest tranche for weapons, air defense systems, surface-to-air missiles, radars and artillery from the U.S. government was valued at $2.98 billion.
Denazification of Ukraine? It seems that no one except the Russian Chekists doing reconnaissance has seen them, and if someone else did see some Nazis, there were about as many of them in Ukraine as there are on Moscow’s Pushkin Square on Adolf Hitler's birthday. None of the dozens of journalists from around the world who broadcast their reports from Ukraine have met any Nazis or fascists.
Protecting the Russian-speaking population of the eastern and southern regions? Where were they protected? — in the almost completely destroyed city of Mariupol, where more than 89% of the population considered Russian their spoken language? Or in Kharkiv, which has been mercilessly bombed for week after week, killing civilians, and where 95% of the population speak (spoke?) Russian? Or Mykolaiv, where over 50% of the population, according to the census, speak Russian as their mother tongue, and which is being destroyed by cluster bombs.
So, the first, second and third goals were not met.
Field Marshall Dukkha and Colonel Moon also hollered at us that Putin aimed to roll back "U.S. dominance" in Eastern Europe and push back NATO away from Russia's borders.
^^Did Putin at least achieve that goal?
It certainly doesn’t look like it. A year before the war, in February 2021, there were 4,650 soldiers and officers under NATO command, and now there are almost ten times as many — 40,000. In the near future, the number of NATO troops will increase to 300,000. This, military analysts say, is the largest increase in NATO strength since the end of the Cold War. The border between Russia and NATO countries also doubled after Finland and Sweden joined the alliance — from 1,207 to 2,575 km.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/09/01/six-months-of-warwhat-putin-wanted-what-putin-got-a78699
They might have teamed up with Estonia and Latvia - the only NATO states that bordered Russia. They could have been in Moscow by now!