I once assumed that small incremental environmentally conscious steps in how people lived, worked, and played were inevitable. I'm talking smaller, more energy efficient, and safer vehicles, vegetable protein substitutes in place of industrialized meat products becoming generally accepted and even the norm, and I even had naive presumptions about some imminent expansion of mass transportation because it simply made more economic sense.
But that was all before I learned the power of 
to be fair...
Russia's strategy was to try to do one quick and decisive push to the capital, to take it over in a week, and they nearly did exactly that. They just got stalled out with fighting at Kiev, and their logistics suck shit and weren't set up (or frankly even capable) of keeping their field army supplied for anything beyond a few days.