Penal battalions? the war crimes are going to spike- only it'll be ukrainians doing it to themselves; rapes, murders, atrocities. Zelensky is probably ordering all of this from a base in Poland.
1. what does it matter? Russian teachers, textbooks and burea of education will ensure the next generaiton of ukrainians are patriots and slavic brethren. If you have doubts, look at the effect of British propaganda on HK from 1997 to 2021.
2. All those nations wanting to join were already de facto members eg Sweden who helped the US spy on Russia and Finland as well, to say nothing of Kosovo.
3. russian economy will rebound once it re-orients itself towards China dn BRI; it still has a massive trove of resources, indsutrial output and access to Chinese capital not to mention chinese technical expertise.
4. What trust? the trust where Germany secretly aided neonazis in Ukraine at the behest of the United States, despite supposedly being the anti- Nazi state that modern Deutschland is supposed to be?
The last point has actually been the most shocking to myself; i would have expected Germany to be the last state to sponsor neo-nazis but having the German spy chief in Ukraine to co-ordinate neo nazi groups...not a good look for modern post war Germany i must say