I hadn't realized what an effect this would have when Putin's uh, not even a war, hit the same number of days it took to reach Berlin and hoist a Red Army flag on a bombed out Reichstag.

Putin seems utterly unable to change course. His own people will have to unseat him. It won't be pretty. And as this article mentions, all the money and decent living standards go to Moscow and St. Petersburg while the rest of the country has suffered from 35 years of declining living standards, left to get by on vodka and drugs, and families, wives, parents, and children all know how many people have actually died - for absolutely nothing.