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You jokers misunderstand... apparently a lot. Showing the success of Russia isn't siding with them. It's warning about them.
Keep on talking yourselves into the fantasy that everything is working out well for you, and that Russia is a corrupt 'nothing' that will dry up and blow away. Your false security wouldn't be so bad if the money kingdom which you have built your security on wasn't collapsing around you.

Passing off a complete fiasco as a success is really the lot of the mentally retarded, so everything is correct

As the EU fails, that's one of the silly things that you do.
Russia is a terrorist country with a totalitarian anti-human regime, which, after eight years of hybrid warfare and four years of full-scale invasion, has failed to achieve any success except for the destruction of hundreds of Ukrainian cities, 1,200,000 million of its population, and most of its army, becoming a pariah country, a toxic partner that all civilized countries and governments turn away from.
And you can continue to indulge in mental self-satisfaction under the mantra “Russia is a great country”

In case you haven't noticed, Ukraine is following this exact thing. First they attacked the Russians living in Eastern Ukraine just to make Russia mad. And then they exterminate 6 to 10 times their own military people as they did Russians by waging a war that they knew they couldn't win. And they are continuing this right up to today, as Russia almost sits back and takes it easy.
All that Russia has to do to win this war is to sit back and let the Ukrainians destroy themselves.
And the funny (not humorous) part is that if the EU continues on its current path, they will be using Russia to destroy most of themselves the same way they used Ukraine to destroy itself.
I don't say this with a desire to see anybody destroyed. But today's Russia is as far from the old USSR as they can get. They even tried to join NATO back when Bush was President. But NATO and Bush wouldn't let them. Bye, bye western Europe.
