It turned out that the presumption that Russia would be crushed and destroyed was incorrect. The West had planned to a degree of total incompetency and believed their own incompetence. It fell for it’s own rhetoric and or fell for it’s own wishful thinking. Seems to be a Western trait to try to alter reality these days…
What happened was that the majority of Russians whom saw all this SMO as a fight to stop NATO from invading Ukraine, have now then fully realized that it had turned into a real war of survival against a real enemy that wanted them dead, that strengthened Russian National Unity. The reality that Nazism was still alive became forefront as the Western masks fell to the wayside…
The West = Nazism!
The historical recollection of Kursk as a pivotal battleground during World War II further strengthened the fighting spirit and readiness of Russians. The act that the West did to try to demoralize Russia backfired. Furthermore, it was clear that the NATO nations, which supply the weapons, training, intelligence, war planning, and target selection, had approved or supported the beginning of such a massive Kursk military operation. The Kursk fiasco by the West is what has brought even the most Western supporting Russians into the Kremlin camp…
WtR