It’s much worse news for Russia. Total war is impossible to sustain for a people, as attacker: If the home front is completely mobilised for war there’s nothing left to fight for in terms of home and culture and even politics, the only source of morale left is survival, and as the attacker Russia doesn’t have that, on the contrary it plays against them as they’d all get to survive splendidly by simply retreating to their borders.

OTOH, from the fascist’s POV it’s all so very inviting: Only war? How splendid! Then we don’t actually have to have a culture or politics, that’s nice, we don’t like that degeneracy anyway.

It seems that Putin read his Clausewitz and then thought “Oh that silly old Prussian goose, what does he know, Hitler knew better he just got too greedy”.

Also have you any idea what it would look like if the EU switched to a war economy. Fully, that is, not like into 1/2th gear (which we’re getting close to). Germany+France+Italy alone have 10x Russia’s GDP.