With the enormous amount of land and resources, Russia could have been the richest country in the world with the most modern technology, but instead it's a shithole.

I think the reason Russia invaded was just because they thought they could (and who knows, perhaps they might still win) and replicate their actions in other countries.

The problem with that line of reasoning is that Russia is painting a massive "kick me"-sign on their country for the next few hundred years, because the world keeps count. Shorting the entire world is kind of a bad idea.

If you want to have long term success as a state, either you conquer the entire planet in a year or you don't attack at all. Geopolitics isn't like it was thousands of years ago. For every smaller state in the world, there is now an incentive to fund the war against the big bully.

The only scenario in which this war makes sense, is if Putin is in fact a spy for the US with the goal being to reduce Russia or Putin just has the brain of a taxi driver.

I hope we get the real reason for the war someday, because a three day war with perfect war plans and execution could have made some sense as a show of power, but the columns of military hardware stuck on roads is something the world is never going to forget. It will be remembered as a bunch of fucking morons that went to war. The Germans at least were remembered for being skilled at war at the beginning of WW2.

What were they thinking?