Russia doesn't rven control the entirety of the annexed territories and is dying in even greater numbers to conquer them, so the point is moot.

A mistake many of us have made is to see Russia as a rational actor and think they will do what they should do. Meanwhile they insist on doing these irrationnal blunders.

So yeah I agree. With them there is no "zero chance" scenario. I wouldn't be too surprised if they baited NATO into a fight just to have a good excuse for losing.

It was a wildly different situation. The Allies were not the winning side in June 1941 when the Germans launched the invasion of the USSR. France had fallen and Germany&its allies and puppets had control of the entire European continent. No way Hitler would have opened a second front had France stalled the Nazi invasion with the battle still fiercely taking place.

If we compare WW2 to the current era then its like Poland manhandling Nazi Germany, who has lost all its initial invasion force. With the Allies staying out of the war but cheering and sending weapons. Madness for the Germans to also try their luck on the French&British at that point when even getting to Warsaw is impossible.

Pretty hard to fetch branches in the woods at the back when -

1. There is no wood, since you live in a city and cutting down park trees would get you arrested.

2. You don't have a fireplace to begin with, so you can't legally and safely warm yourself with a fire.