[gruez]

>And that will cost Russia a great deal.

How much is Russia spending on the war compared to Ukraine?

[onlypassingthru]

Here are just some of the reasons Russia is hastening its economic demise:

- spending all of its foreign reserves and weakening its currency

- killing tens of thousands of working age men

- permanently removing hundreds of thousands of working age men from the workforce

- increasing the demands on social benefits for disabled veterans by hundreds of thousands of men

- suppressing the birth rate by staying in a protracted 'special military operation'

[DennisP]

What I mean is that attackers from either side will take a lot more casualties than defenders.