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with what?
They're replenishing troops:
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-army-expansion-a2bf0b035aabab20c8b120a1c86c9e38
And their arms and defense industry is ramping up heavily:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-ramps-up-output-some-military-hardware-by-more-than-tenfold-state-company-2023-09-19/
They've lost a lot of troops. Putin doesn't care, he can always send more of his countrymen to their deaths.
They've lost a lot of equipment. Putin doesn't care, the Soviet Union spent far far more than Russia as a proportion of GDP and maintained that spending for decades.
They are not to be underestimated, especially if Trump wins and further undermines NATO.
Russia just does not have the economic capacity that the USSR did, and there not even winning. They've stalemated at best.
This apples and oranges.
They're not winning, yet.
No one ever won a war by underestimating the enemy. Alarm bells should be going off across the west. They should have been going off a decade ago.
The winner is always the one who simultaneously estimates their opponents most accurately, while their opponents estimate them least accurately.
It's both Tsun tsu and the fundamental theory of poker, and as an outsider looking in, Ukraine is winning by this definition. They've made a good estimate and response to Russian capabilities while Russia both misestimated and misapplied it's survey of forces. In this sense they are losing
However, what Russia has that Ukraine doesn't, which it is using to great effect, is a deep, heavily invested in, propaganda and foreign influence campaign. Almost all negative impacts on global policy over the past 15 years tie back to this (Trump 2016, Brexit, Catalonia, The first invasion of Ukraine, Turkey and many more). It's not something Ukraine can really compete against. It's something the people of the world can compete against to support Ukraine however.
Can the society of Russia "not care" along with Putin?
Not a democracy.
Which means no peaceful life after being voted out for pissing off too many people.
Voted out? Putin can't be voted out.
Exactly, the only way he is leaving is in a coffin.
they can shoot him, but there is no way he goes out by a normal election or impeachment process...