Crimea is illegally occupied by Russia.
The bridge built by Putin links to actual Russia and has been regularly used to supply Putin's genocidal war efforts.
Happily that bridge will be completely taken out soon.
It's a very major military goal of the Ukrainian defenders.
Do you hear yourself?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/17/crimea-bridge-kerch-ukraine-russia/
You sound ignorant of the social contract Putin specifically made with the Russian public in exchange for them supporting a dictatorship. He's already broken that contract but it's relative and there is likely a breaking point Putin is trying to avoid that breaking point. He's obsessed with the memory of the fate of Gaddafi.
That's true.
But the west isn't helping Ukraine enough to actually win.
It still isn't.
Just enough to not lose and the eight month delay from the Putin adjacent U.S. maga fascists saw Ukraine on a losing slide.
So to me it's not about capability (yes the west has it) but political will and patience. Russia historically is into very long wars. The west particularly Americans have five minute attention spans.
China is interesting.
They are not fully in the axis (Iran, Russia, NK) yet. They want nothing to do with being economically isolated from the west and Putin's insane nuclear threats. They have the power to stop Putin, not that they will.