> German rearmament, unified all parts of Ukraine, permanent stationment of US troops in frontier countries, pushed Sweden and Finland to Nato membership, started the real process of energy diversification in Europe, unified EU countries and destroyed Russia economy.

OTOH, for a dictatorship, of a just plain bad economy with no external actor to pin the blame on and a miserable economy with a clear external actor to blame and a grievance narrative, the latter can at times be more politically useful, though its obviously worse for the people: Russia may have lost strategically, but Russia-as-actor is a anthropomorphistic fiction. The harder question is has Putin lost strategically. And while there may be hope for that, I don’t think it is anywhere near as clear.