Putin more or less tipped off WW3 but much to his lack of awareness, there’s no power to be gained and no status he can obtain to bring Russia back to being a 2nd superpower. Russia is dead in the water politically in the world with China sitting very nicely as the Superpower with everything to gain. I think it’s long held that China and America are the worlds biggest powers and Russia has dropped out of the top 5. I don’t see an end to their military advancements in Ukraine as they don’t gain much with this move. Forcing them to advance westwards in an all out European war. Fucking scumbag