I was always skeptical and anybody should always be in wars. Both side would inflate the casualities of the enemy and underreport their own casualities. I don’t believe the report that a million russians soldiers casuality.
I think russia will win the traditional war but won’t win in the long term when the ukraine army is defeated and resistance group appear instead. It may happen in a decade or even a century but at some point i think ukraine will take back it’s territory.
China maybe weakning the whole west by not intervening except supply some militsry ewuipment to russia