Out of all Western leaders this war is most and foremost on Comrade Merkel, starting with her 2008 NATO membership veto against Ukraine, then looking the other way during Georgia invasion, then straight up rewarding the Crimea annexion with Nordstream2 construction. 16 years of pampering of a regime that should have been diplomatically and economically isolated. That's one Western player maneuvering themselves out of a strong position. Then the US are split into senile retard pronouns-in-bio crowd and orange lapdog and russia cheerleader crowd, a joke of a country. Russia itself has absolutely nothing to win except smol pp ego boost. It's gonna see the absolute hurt laid on their economy and drain their society. Maybe our new government can move the EU to dish out some diplomatic pain, NS2 halt was a good start.