1. Russia bogged down in a forever war with Ukraine 2. NATO emboldened, enlarged, and preparing for war with Russia 3. Assad and Maduro gone4. Armenia on the pro-Western course 5. Iran and its proxies on the trend towards extinction 6. Cuba doomed, Nicaragua next to get the Maduro treatment In 1945, Russia had Berlin, Vienna, and all of Eastern Europe In 2026, Russia fights for villages in Eastern Ukraine