[Forward the Light Brigade]

Putin knows that all he must do is keep the war going until the West loses interests and goes home. It is a complex mess with no easy fix. In the end, Russia wins.

[pierrem15]

The West isn't losing interest, and he can't sustain 60K losses per month for very long.

Ukraine will have to make concessions, but Trump will offer (and threaten) enough to get Putin to make an agreement that gives so little that soon afterwards it will be manifest that the SMO was a total failure.