if you are a russian soldier and you aren’t an idiot

Isn’t this is a bit like “if you are a person writing in the Fediverse and you don’t have lungs”?

Which of these have military presence by the Russia? Most?

That presence is in the process of disappearing, which will mean action for all those countries…

True, but the chaos is coming anyway. The earlier it begins, the less destructive it will be.

That’s a different operation, though. At least for now USA’s behaviour is more akin to what they did in Iran than Iraq or Afghanistan.

The difference to the mayhem they caused in Iran is that here USA wouldn’t need to worry about implanting a successor.

HUR will be handle that a thousand times better.

In Putin’s case they don’t need to. There are competent people around who will be able to handle that. Moscow isn’t that far from the border of civilization.