Uncomfortable to say but the left is completely broke on this war. While it is a war amongst capitalist blocs NATO vs BRICS nonaligned countries it also has a civil and ethnic component to it probably more properly thought of as a civil war. This is 5th gen warfare, Western Russia analysis criticizes slow progress but what we're framing as thir quagmire is certainly exacting a high price well above the percieved punching price of comparative economies. (Russia recently compared to Italy as a power par their economies).