One needs to read Washington Post just like citizens of China or the Soviet Union learned to read the People’s Daily or Pravda, ie) between the lines.
If they are saying it, it means the central committee has decided on a new policy.
The “central committee”, or Deep State, is changing the narrative because reality is breaking through the psyops illusion that has simpletons frothing at the mouth over the heroic Zelensky and the perfidious Russians.
The comments on the Wapo piece demonstrate that leftards who think they are “intellectuals” have become intellectually lazy. They want a simple story about “their team” so they can feel self-righteous and root for “their team.” Hardly any of the commenters know anything about Ukraine or even relatively recent history. The comments make it seem like they think there really is a Ghost of Kiev.
Zelensky is likely to be deposed by a military that has been used as cannon fodder for no rational purpose by a US/NATO government that exists only because of a coup we engineered against a democratically elected government. Not any of the many whooping it up for a Russian defeat on Wapo have any idea that the Zelensky government has taken over most of the media, banned opposition parties, and is using the SBU kidnap, intimidate, or kill dissenters. All of this, along with wanting to avoid being drafted as cannon fodder, is part of the reason so many young Ukrainian men have fled to the west.