Russia proves itself every other decade just what a garbage, completely inebriated culture it really is. Picking fights with whoever it thinks is defenseless and then getting a well deserved beat down for their hubris is the repeat of history they never learn to remember. The sooner Europe and the west invade, peg them to into submission with an installed democracy, the better off the world will be. Putin keeps it up much longer and the Chinese will flip on them too! There's no gain to be had from an ally that pisses away stability and prosperity every generation at least once. China getting sick of bailing out its drunken uncle to the north.