Is A Putin-Victory Necessary Now To Seal His Legacy?

 I saw this topic being brought up this week, and even some Russians were openly discussing the matter.....that the whole resume of Putin is mostly 'empty'.

I questioned the idea of 'empty'.

There must be ninety pages of Wiki material on Putin, and it goes from one extreme to another.....there's even a page on Covid (more or less, he saved Russia from Covid....if you read the forty-odd lines).

Putin saved Russia from collapse.....Putin saved Russia from the evil west....Putin saved Russia from bloggers....Putin saved Russia from stupid Oligarch folks.  I suspect if he were a general (like the typical ones you see on Russian shows).....he'd have around four-hundred medals on his chest and mostly lean forward because of the enormous weight on his chest.

The question then arises.....is it all mostly hype, and he really needed some military 'victory' to solidify his great contribution to the 'motherland'?

I am reminded of the 2007 episode where Putin went off for a summer rest in Siberia.....had a number of pictures taken with his shirt off, and the caption was stamped 'be like Putin' was the hype of the summer.  It was mostly a lean Putin on a horse, without a shirt, and he looked like a youthful Rambo.  Beyond the image....did he do much worth two-thousand lines on a Wiki-page?  No....not really.

So I might agree....he needs some legacy here toward the end.  Defeating the Nazis in the Ukraine would have been a good deed and probably kept him on the top ten Russians of all time list.  The fact that there might not be many Nazis there, or that it took forty-odd-thousand dead conscripts to achieve some marginal 'end' to the operation?  It's best not to bring that up.

Some Conscript/Putin statue figures to be put up after he passes?  The Russians are famous for putting giant statues, and I kinda suspect they will have some a dozen life-size Conscripts in some fight stance, with a Putin 'bigger-than-life' figure leading them, and some patriotic song at the dedication ceremony to remember the military operation (not the WAR).