Not to shit on everyone’s parade, but Russia is advancing and has been for the last year. At horrendous and by western standard unacceptable losses for sure, but they don’t care about such notions. And as long as they can get ‘leaders’ like Le Pen or Trump elected they will succeed and take whatever they had gained.

We could have made a decisive victory. We chose not to over unwarranted fears and corruption, which makes it all the more infuriating.