The more you zoom out, the more the situation looks worse for Russia. Their long term prospects are really very bad. But when you zoom in to details, it flips and Russia looks like it is in a better position. The trick is balancing the two perspectives.
If you stay too focused on one or the other, you lose perspective. Both are important. The short term advantages Russia has must be actively mitigated, and you must also understand they are short term. If you don’t take these issues seriously, bad things will happen.
But at the same time, they shouldn’t be taken too strongly as to imply they will last forever, because they cannot and will not. All planning at every level, from government down to volunteers, should be built around balancing the long and short term realities.
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