IDK if they have it in them to attack again in 5 years. There are some serious "capability reassessment" tasks that need to get done.
1. Can ANY army - let alone one as shit-useless at the Russian - take an urbanized European country w a hostile population in an era of drone strikes, squad level comms and javelin and other shoulder-aimed a/t r/l's? I am guessing that the Russian hold the main roads and the fields and thickets are full of Uk. spetsnaz with javelins and comms hunting those Russian afv's and supply trucks. And there's not much the Russians can do to eliminate those intruders. As long as you keep delivering a/t rocket launchers to the Ukrainians, they're going to kill Russian tanks.
2. Can Russia afford to run such a large army and how much would it cost to make it combat-efficient. They have no NCO corps because they don't pay NCO level salaries because they can't afford to pay them. How tf do you solve that?!
3. Replacing those lost tanks and afv's? That's gonna cost time and money.
4. I an guessing that Zelensky is going to get himself some super modern, nice US, Brit and German-made army toys after this and those Leopards and Abrams will kick those old Russian T-72's into borshcht. So the Pooter's task is going to get harder. Plus, the Ukrainians will be feeling pretty good about themselves after this and they're going to be more than willing to go re-match with the Russians.
