Recently I listed some of the serious consequences for Russia of the limited operation(see here and here).

Another is Putin's failure to take Odessa and close Ukraine from the Black Sea.  As long as Ukraine has Odessa, attacks can be mounted from sea on Crimea, such as the recent attack by 28 drones. What is the value of a limited military operation that leaves the enemy every opportunity to continue its attacks on Russian territory?

Putin's failure to quickly knock Ukraine out of the war gives the US and NATO the opportunity to establish Black Sea bases in Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, and possibly Turkey.  In other words, Putin is allowing the possibility of the US and NATO to challenge Russia's natural dominance of the Black Sea.  It is difficult to imagine a more fatal error.

The US 101st Airborne Division is sitting in Romania. Why?  Is it to cut off Russian forces in Transnistria and achieve the victory of a Russian surrender, or is it to provide "trip-wire" protection for US/NATO to complete the encirclement of the Russian Navy that has been achieved in the North and Baltic Seas as the result of Putin's limited operation that sent Sweden and Finland into NATO?

What Putin and his pro-Western Atlanticist Integrationist advisors thought would be a reassuring-to-the- West "limited operation" confined to Donbass in fact gave the anti-Russian West the opportunity to turn the tables against Putin.  He is now in a war for which he hasn't sufficient conventional forces as he has not committed the necessary funds for a real army.

And he still refuses to abandon his goody two shoes posture that places the lives of Ukrainian civilians and their water, electric power, public transportation and every day convenience, all of which facilitates the fighting ability of Ukraine,  above the survival of Russia and her troops in the trenches.