World News

Russia pushed back the Azov battalion, but now every other NATO military is increasing spending and multiple other countries' militaries have joined it. You have to be huffing serious amounts of copium to think that the SMO has been an overall benefit to Russia or the people in Donbas or anyone except the military contractors on both sides of the conflict.

Oh yeah and the Azov Battalion is now the Azov Regiment and Ukraine's military and politics are more Nazi than they've ever been. Territorial gains aside the SMO must be evaluated as a failure according to its stated goals of denazifying Ukraine and improving Russia's security.