The problem has always been Zelenskyy. He thought he was a new Napoleon, a better general than a comedian. And, give him credit, in the first months of the war he did manage to do some wonderful things, But, after the Russians dumped their weak generals, re-armed and re-organized. They are better on the battlefield. Zelenskyy was told to focus his attack—he didn’t. He was told to fall back and set up a defensive line, he didn’t. Then he invaded Russia proper—another mistake. Trying terrorism on Russia by sending men to shoot up a concert hall—all that did was make the Russians go crazy (crazier than they are normally). Now, Mr. Zelenskyy is holding power using Russia as a boogie man for Europe. A Boogie man he helped to make. We in America, and the west, are not used to fighting people who are equal to us in technical skill. We like to blow up tents and camels in the desert—not people with airplanes and rockets. Nothing will happen until Zelenskyy is gone and my bet is that his own army will put him out of his misery.
Putin hasn’t taken any Ukrainian town of significance in 2 years since Prigozhin finally took Bakhmut after a yearlong fight.
And then Putin blew up Prigozhin, his best general.