Depends how you consider "quite well" - the total collapse of Russia's military credbility, the insanely high casualty rate, the loss of material, for something that they were already allowed to use in Crimea, and a part of the Donbas?

I wouldn't call that "well" at all. Seems like a completely disaster.

You're going to have to provide some kind of evidence for what you surely must acknowledge is an absurdly bold claim.

Why can't "the community" just make another subreddit and then pick it up from there? Oh right, because they want to sell our data.

If you've already decided that any criminal cases against him are a "witch hunt" - then how could it ever be proven to you that he did something wrong?