[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.