"You are saying, in a way, this is another Forever War against RF by the west. I guess there is a chance..."

-Yup. The best deal we can get out of this is for the West to hunker down for a new Cold War without doing anything seriously stupid.

That means continued economic decline for Europe, as well as increased worthless spending on the Military Industrial complex for world beating boondoggles...oh and endless propaganda about how Russia is an oppressive dictatorship...unlike the free, fair democracy that we will clearly have...

" Ijits. I wonder how long is her employment likely to last? Forever .. or just after the US election? "

-Forever. It will take untill her retirement as an old lady for them to get used to the idea of being beaten/wrong.