Oddly enough, in this war in which Ukraine has “no chance”, the Ukrainians have won a number of impressive victories.
Moreover the Russians haven’t had the initiative in over a year, and certainly cannot end it through offensive operations. Which in theory they should be able to. But theory doesnt stand alone. War is empirical, because it depends on a huge mass of real-world factors that theories cannot account for - much like global warming climate models.
At the moment the Russians seem to be barely hanging on.
And they killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, their most effective commander in the battlefield.
War isn’t necessarily about continually taking territory or Unconditional Surrender ‘winning’.
Putin is more than satisfied to have liberated the areas he already controls; populations that were always against the Zelensky bathhouse regime.
Just like before the war, he enjoys watching the depleted, empty husk of NATO step on its own dick every week and expose itself as the criminal front that it is.
So you’re in Spain, huh ? You don’t have far to go to join up and fight for Zelensky’s dictatorship. What’s keeping you ?