Russia and Ukraine

[WinterHold]

You mean "the only super-power".
Unless you think that wasted money and men, soldiers and even political power are not exhaustion, then you are hugely mistaken.

Lots of powers are being exhausted, economy experts must tell you...or job owners.

Russia today has nothing to do with the Russia of the 90’s for instance. People are fleeing the country in masses. The ones who did not flee are very poor and they live in their fantasy world created by the propaganda machine.
 
Iran is an oil-rich country who can’t feed its own population. They produce Shaheed Drones + Nuclear weapons. And that’s about it.
 
North Korea is selling its own population to China to work in slavery-like conditions in the production of textile products of some famous European trademarks.
 
Countries like Egypt / Morocco / Jordan are not very powerful countries and are not democratically governed, but these are still sovereign states that need to be respected. Still, places like Venezuela / Haiti / Cuba / Syria or even Iraq are not what I would call “real countries”. I see these places as some sort of void areas that are created by the limited global geopolitical understanding of our times. George W Bush called them “Rogue countries”. I call them “empty spaces”

Putin's "Russia" is different than Soviet "Russia".
Soviet Russia had different tactics than Putin's Russia.

Soviet Russia was an imperialist superpower, while Putin's Russia is a member of a bigger alliance that includes "China-North Korea-Iran,...(other countries we don't yet know).

Soviet Russia fought for the USSR only, but Putin's Russia fights for the bigger alliance I just mentioned.

On Afghanistan: No one kicked anyone out. The US left (I don't know why they left) and the corrupt "Afghan Government" fled to India without forgetin his dollars + Classical sports car. than barbarian hordes claimed the country as their own and thats about the end of the story

No, the U.S "retreated" just like Vietnam and lost Billions, we mentioned that in an old post.
Back to Putin's Russia.