No, Russia has already lost. Rather than have former Warsaw Pact countries be neutral, they are all part of the EU and NATO, which has entered former Soviet territory in the Baltics.
right. that's why Putin referred to the collapse of the USSR as "a great geopolitical catastrophe." what you and I call "EU" and "NATO", Russia calls it Western aggression. (remember, Russia has been demolished by Western European invasions 3 times since 1805). Putin is on a mission to get at least some of that "buffer" territory back.
