That’s why I’ve been sweating like a whore in church lately. There aren’t many who recognize the severity of the risk as one side IS losing badly.
The Ukes are collapsing. The collapse is cascading. I’m on record that this over by 10/1. Truce, armistice, unconditional surrender or entire area fused glass. The Ukes can’t win.
As Richard Nixon might say about the NATO formations marshaled all over Central Europe, “It’s time to $hit or get off the pot”. NATO will commit ground troops, their penultimate escalation, or they will simply walk away from Project Ukraine. The same way we did in Viet Nam.
The next month will be the most dangerous of our lives.
I think the NATO and US deep-state see other options. Even with the destruction of Ukraine Army (which will take much longer than 10/1), they can establish a long-running insurgency among Azov radicals, they can give select, remaining Ukraine army units advanced missiles (and ISR support) which will simply be used to terrorize cities and "embarrass" Putin.
The main gamble was regime-change in Russia, but assuming that fails, it is to create a destabilizing "forever war" on Russia's border.
I can't see the US Deep State simply "walking away" from Ukraine. I also believe this is also why they will NEVER allow Trump to assume the Presidency.
In the face of this, Putin is actually a moderate who is attempting to play a long game. If he is destabilized, hardliners will come to the fore, who are ready to let the nukes fly on Washington DC