Future of Russia poll. Please everybody participate.

Half of these already happened

Poverty is a given. Right now economically speaking they'd be better off just retreating than taking over Ukraine - replacing all of the infrastructure they've bombed to shit and demining the fields they need to farm will take potentially decades and will cost niggillions of rubles. And that's just Ukraine, you have military stock to replenish, veterans to reintegrate into society, wounded and crippled to care for, so on and so forth.

Honestly depends on how much the russian demoralization and scare tactics work on western audiences.

If the EU and USA keeps up the supplies, Russia will have to face internally a lost war, crippling inflation and a recently laid of mass of people who can point at the cause, the current leadership.

If it doesn't, Ukraine falls, etc, then it will maybe will be able to keep the internal strife at a low point and Russia will only slowly decay away because of the aforementioned reasons.

I really hope Trump isn't actually serious 'winning' peace on russian terms for the domestic 80 IQ audience, but is willing to channel the dumb-r-slur energy of ruralcels into something productive for the hegemony of his country.

The war in Ukraine wouldn't have even happened if Russia wasn't already a regional power.

Depends on the post-Putin period. In my mind you can get a Russian (political) stagnation as "easily" as you can Russia orbiting a stronger EU ala Macronian ideals.