Ukraine

I'm a bit worried that Ukraine will avenge Bucha and the others. That would be a bad thing in many levels.

Then again, I'm not sure how we could get reliable data about such a thing anyway: if they are forced to retreat from those areas, Russia will certainly accuse them of atrocities. Perhaps even make a few of their own and blame Ukraine.

Nothing good will come of this.

At best this is a risky incursion which the Russian people will forget about in the coming weeks, that's if the Russian propaganda machine hasn't already spun it in their favour.

We seem to forget that making Putin look bad is a fool's errand when we're talking about a country where the state controls the media and where dissenters are either locked away in a remote gulag, or punted off a third-storey window in a way to vaguely look like suicide.

And at worst... this could lead to an escalation...

The closest we've had to a decisive blow against Russia was Prigozhin's revolt.

This will lead to nothing good. Russia will now play the defense card and this war will continue even further and deadlier.