'Putin Has Effectively Crossed the Rubicon': Putin Critic Bill Browder on Backlash in Russia

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3. Those numbers are appalling

He's lost more in 7 moths what it took the US nearly 20 years to lose in Vietnam.

Russians have always worn suffering like a badge of honor. They reached their limit in WWI. I think they will likely reach their limit in this one, also, and soon. The traffic jams at all borders tell that tale.

The military is outmoded and ill equipped, but it's not weak. It's just fighting the wrong kind of war.

Putin is now boxed in. He loses (and he will), he gets pitched out of a window or faces a firing squad. He uses a tactical nuke, NATO will make certain a great part of his military infrastructure is gone and they will do it with conventional warfare. The only real question is how long he'll be able to delay the inevitable.