Russia - threadbanned users in OP

But not quite so prescient as to "correctly predicted how Russia would loose a war with Ukraine." Russia hasn't lost the war with Ukraine (not to speak of not having a hope of winning it) such as to make the prediction correct.

What is a Ukrainian win btw? For me, a Russian victory is the taking of Donbass, Odessa and the landlocking of Ukraine. allied with the unconditional surrender of Kiev and the fall of the US government there.

Suffice to say, the world needs the US to loose.

Russia has already lost, even if they swarmed across Ukraine to the Polish border by next weekend. Their economy is heavily affected. That they keep swearing it's not to anyone who will listen is a sure sign of that. Just like HIMARS didn't matter, but mattered enough that they now have to manhandle supplies to the front over much longer distances because of them. They've lost their massive financial stream from Europe, where the vast majority of their pipelines went, not to their apparent "friends", who they're selling off their oil to at an operating loss.

They're cut off from most of Western investment, finance, insurance and shipping for the foreseeable future and trying to get a couple of small African nations on side won't replace that. Never mind that they have to go to Iran and North Korea for arms supply. Their aeropsace industry has fallen off a cliff. Internal flights are a less than a tenth of what they were before this. Even their "homegrown" airliners used Western engines and avionics as it's not the Soviet Union any more.

They've also increased the number of countries to jostling to join NATO and have effectively cut themselves off from Europe for the foreseeable future, while Europe and elsewhere is looking to rearm.

BRICS? They'll be a junior partner there as China alone are vastly bigger than them economically and going by Ukraine militarily with it, and there isn't exactly a lot of love lost there anyway. China's trade with Europe and the US and vice versa is ten times what it is with Russia, never mind markets like Australia, Japan etc. The Chinese are not hotheaded fools and know the score. No? Watch what happened when the West banned Russia's impounded Boeing and Airbus fleets from their airspaces. The Chinese banned them too within the week. What does that tell you?

On top of their already existing serious demographic problem that was so bad they were paying mothers thousands to have kids, since this war many tens of thousands of mostly young Russians have joined the many that left before and while we can debate the figures fired out by both sides, they're certainly and directly losing many thousands in Ukraine. Now the EU had her own demographic stagnation, but it wasn't as bad as Russia's and now because of this moronic war they've gone and "gifted" millions of mostly young Europeans to the same EU, many of whom will stay. If Russia actually "wins" in Ukraine that number will grow again

As for the war itself? They've lost 50% of their gains and the front hasn't moved in months. They've been chopping and changing commanders with the wind, while relying on private armies to do much of the heavy lifting. They're hiding their fleet from a nation that doesn't have a navy, they don't have anything like air superiority and can't seem to do combined arms warfare with anything approaching skill. Their tactics are old school WW2 stuff; hammer with artillery, throw in wave after wave of bullet stoppers, then send in their better troops and as I said still the front hasn't moved in months.

As for the government in Kiev; you want it back to a Russian government, another vassal like Belarus. The fact they looked West was enough for putin to have a fit.

As for America losing. They've come out of this the better of it so far. Again even if Russia "won" Ukraine next week, the US has spent what amounts to a pittance for them. They've gained huge amounts of intel on Russian forces, gained valuable lessons in how Russia fights and saw how their weapons platforms work in the real world. Economically? The US' economy is so massive it makes Russia's look like a small nation in Europe. Hell, Ireland had more exports than Russia last year and Russia has a population nearly 30 times larger and has infinitely more natural resources. The Chinese will most certainly keep dealing with the US and vice versa with the usual back and forth sabre rattling, so long as it doesn't affect bottom lines, ditto for the EU.

BTW you forgot to add in that Zelensky is a billionaire cocaine sniffer whose wife spends squillions in Parisien boutiques. That Ukraine would still love Mother Russia if those dastardly Americans hadn't turned their heads. Yet Russia wasn't welcomed in with open arms by their Ukrainian "brothers"? Hmmm... Plus look at behind the lines attacks. They're all behind the Russian lines in "their" Ukraine. Bugger all such attacks behind Ukrainian lines. What does that tell you? I'd throw in child soldiers, biolabs, dirty nuclear bombs and weaponised mosquitos too. And I wonder what happened to the Russian claims of chemical warfare last week? That caught amnesia even faster than usual for Russian scuttlebutt. Even the Yanks had the cop on to give up on the WMD BS when the jig was up.

To be fair SeanMD, Russia's "Official History" of WW2 is sketchy to say the least. Never mind they put the date of the start of it in 41, handily avoiding the fact they were supplying nazi Germany with vast amounts of oil, steel and grain while WW2 in Europe had already been going on for two years. And handily avoiding that they agreed with the same Nazi Germany to carve up Eastern Europe between them. Just ask the Poles. And handily avoiding the fact that they were the ones to directly help Germany arm up before the Austrian corporal even showed up. This is a map of such bases in said cooperation between them. At one point the Soviet Union even got into talks to join the AXIS.

And then hitler broke the deal. Only then did "The Great Patriotic War" break out. Funny that. A war they would have almost certainly lost without the huge supplies of materiel and food the Allies sent by way of lend lease, which Comrade Stalin himself recognised and acknowledged.