russian strategy: let the enemy in in September, after the harvest, then freeze, starve them in the deep winter, worked with Napolean, Hitler, did not work for the Russian advised Egyptians, not enough snow in the desert.
Russia is big and ruthless, but
who knows, Japan is still at war with Moscow, and might get their islands back, if the Kremlin has to bring its Vladi army westward as it did in 1942.