IF Russia does not achieve all three goals of the SMO: 1) demilitarization; 2) denazification; 3) the complete neutrality of Ukraine, i.e. NO NATO, then Russia loses. Putin, his close circle, and the MOD all know that they must decapitate the snake or it will only return later with more vengeance.
1) Demilitarization means precisely that Ukraine no longer has a military, no foreign mercenaries and advisors, and therefore no further military attacks against Russia. 2) Denazification means cleaning out the ultranationalist, Nazi, Bandera influence in the government and society, but additionally a reeducation effort that will take more than a few generations. This will be the most challenging. 3) Neutrality, and no NATO ever. The complete capitulation of Ukraine, NATO and the USA must be achieved.
One cannot lose sight of Russia's vision of a multipolar world. Putin, Lavrov, plus China and the fast-growing BRICS movement is the geopolitical battle that is simultaneously taking place. This is the epic battle for the future order of the world, and another reason why the "West" must destroy Russia in order to preserve its imperialistic, multipolar world as the hegemon.
You know as a theologian I believed that the rift between Roman Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodox Church was a disagreement on defining the three persons in the one god, the doctrine of the Trinity. It was much deeper than that as I now understand. I believe it was not just a rejection of papal primacy, but the superiority of the "West" over Byzantium, i.e. the East. It was inherently racist, a sense of supremacy of ideas, culture, and rule.
What today we refer to as western liberalism, Wokeism, and the LGBTQ+ is an attempt to destroy the family and thereby destroy our humanity, i.e. transhumanism, and nihilism. The USA, Western, Globalist war against Russia today is therefore not only a war for land, resources, and rule, but an attempt to destroy the Russian "Soul" which has been held together by Orthodoxy throughout Russia's more than 1,000 year history. President Putin and Patriarch Kiril of Moscow have stated this repeatedly.
They see this as a war to preserve and save our basic humanity, family values, and Orthodox Christianity. The East–West Schism, also known as the Great Schism or the Schism of 1054 is the genesis of not only this war against Russia, but all of the wars and invasions including Sweden, Napoleon, Hitler, and The Cold War. Russia, Moscow “The Third Rome,” as the bastion of Orthodoxy, must be destroyed.
I have never thought of the schism that way before. For me it was about the centre of control of the Papacy where Roman Catholics centred in Rome and Orthodox in Constantinople. Later russian Orthodoxe forming its own branc from the Greeks without changing the Liturgy. Yes, one must drill deeper down to get to the underlying reasons. If one starts at the other end, it is Lucifer and the fallen angels who are the real enemy because everything happening in our world today is superficial. The real war is about Good and evil. God vs satan. So many in the world do not believe this is true and a vast number of religions have been led astray from the true God and are too comfortable to beleive or question otherwise.If one looks at the statistics of the world (and truly believes the Bible), and the statistics show up that the majority of the people an eart are Christians, the how can the Bible talk about many being call but few chosen. Who are the few? Why not ALL Christians? Start digging deeper folks, revelations await.