The most dangerous and terrible aspect of the Ukraine war is that it has caused Russia to massively increase the size and capability of its military and 10x increase its military industrial production to produce very effective high tech (eg Lancet drones) and low tech (eg artillery) weapons in immense amounts that The West cannot match.
See details of Lancet production in the video 2/3rd the way down this post: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/kerch-bridge-deja-vu-breakdown
Before the war Russia's military was actually quite small (which was why they couldn't hold all the land they originally took).
But now a monster has been unleashed and every month that goes past with The West deluding itself that Russia is losing increases Russia's quantitive, qualitative and experience advantage over The West in high intensity modern warfare.
Regarding your fear of communism (which I share) by far the greatest danger of communism comes from the woke left in the US itself. Russia has completely abandoned it and runs a more capitalist economy than the US.
What is your source for world reserve numbers? I have seen numbers claiming Ukraine has the largest reserve of military force on earth, is that only because of NATO supporting Ukraine?
Many data points indicate Ukraine is running out of men, including very old and very young on front line. Harsh forced conscription of men off the streets (like old style British Navy press gangs), very large population loss since start of war, very low fertility and bad demographics long before the war etc.
This is an interesting analysis
Anyone claiming Ukraine has the world's largest reserves is utterly deluded and mathematically challenged. How can a country of 30 million have more reserves than India or China with well over 1 Billion.