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Because:
1. Puccians operate on a particular flavor of "of course we'll win, eventually, we just have to suffer more" fatalism.
2. Western leaders didn't have the balls to tell Puccian leaders (Putin) that invading Ukraine has clearly been a strategic blunder, and further threaten that it is a mistake that the west will exploit to its fullest. This led Putin to also buy into their own mythos, get high on their own supply of western decline propaganda, and assume maybe another million dead Russians or so will give them what they want. It won't.