Win or lose, they’re fucked for the next decades at least.

Who are ‘they’? If you talk about people who decide to continue the war - not necessarily: the power and elite are cementing and the probability of toppling Putin is decreasing rapidly with each year of militarization.

If you talk about common people, then I agree, for regular russians that’s a disaster, for a tiny minority - the last opportunity to get rich.

If you equate these categories, you are a delulu