I wonder how they're going to rebalance their economy from the inevitable dislocation, especially considering their apparent need to ramp up industrial production to replace their massive equipment losses.Then again a full war economy enables a suspension of fiscal/monetary norms and they don't need to do very much in the short term.

Putin can just assemble divisions and then move them around in on Russia's western frontiers to provoke anxiety and disruptions in European countries. Nobody is going to violate Russian territory which gives him the whole winter to flex at relatively low cost and risk while stabilizing his position in Ukraine.