I pity the person who doesn't know how to play the border game perfectly.

Interesting that the Russians don't get what all those 10,000 ruble payments are contributing too, like all the bonsues for the military, etc., etc. Putin believes he has unlimited gold. It will take time but eventually inflation will run rampant through Russia. There's nothing less productive than WAR.

Russians may point to the Iraqi war, which was certainly expensive, but in the end the world paid for that war. I don't see any scenario where the world will pay for this war.