Putin gloated at the terrible US losses in men and materiel in Iraq and Afghanistan. In three years Russia surpassed America's miseries. I don't have the economic figures handy for Russia, but the "Forever Wars" cost the US $14 trillion.
The PTSD and environmental damage to Ukraine (and Russia) is incalculable.
Worse for Putin, he has demographically cost the Russian population future generations while China has 1.1 bn people at his eastern border. China's military losses in the past 25 years? Maybe under a hundred in UNPKO and border skirmishes in the Himalayas against Indian frontier guards. And China made money during the war while observing which military techniques, tactics, and technologies work.
China is the net winner of Putin's brutality.
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