[JumpCrisscross]

> country won't fail, but it will further struggle because of the decisions made my leadership

It’s removing itself as a conventional threat to Europe for generations to come. And as much as Beijing is a rival to Washington, they’re rational in a way Moscow is not. Russia as a Chinese suzerainty is probably a better world configuration than Russia as a sovereign regional power.

> find this general attitude of "Russia has no issues" that are going around on the internet quite confusing if pretty much every economic indicator says otherwise

The sanctions’ goal was to cripple the Russian economy in a militarily-relevant way. On this they failed and that has been widely discussed. Folks might be extrapolating that discussion inappropriately.

[ivan_gammel]

> It’s removing itself as a conventional threat to Europe for generations to come

How? Surely not in military sense. If anything, they gained experience of modern drone warfare and tested and refined their technology.

[throwaway290]

Taking into account relative sizes of the invaded and invading country, Russian government showed themselves a complete laughing stock. And this is without involvement of any NATO troops by the way.

Any limited success they had before was in what can't be called a conventional confrontation, like separatist movements.