Let's look at the progress of the war
That don't look like a Ukrainian collapse -- looks like a Russian collapse
Russian advances are all in pink. Initially, Russia claimed most of the Ukrainian northern border. By April 24, Russia has lost nearly all of it.
Now they are struggling and killing thousands of their young men for inches of ground in the Donbas. They aren't in any position to demand an unconditional surrender
You should come up with a graph of troops left fighting.
Do you think Ukraine is “winning” this war?
The pink and non-pink areas are impressive in one respect. But I don’t think it takes into consideration that if you look at the photos of cities and villages before and after you can see the destruction of Ukraine.
Secondly, they are not harvesting grain, transporting grain, manufacturing or exporting fertilizer and their natural gas, oil and shale deposits are no longer being developed.
If and when the Russians cut Odessa off from the Ukrainians, I think that a land locked Ukraine might be amenable to neutrality and an understanding of Russia’s paranoid delusion of NATO invasion.
The people that should be worried live in Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
They really need to read the fine print of Article 5 of the NATO agreement. There’s a real nice “catch-22” verbiage in it.
Like Yossarian said, ‘That’s some catch, that catch-22,’ he observed. ‘It’s the best there is,’ Doc Daneeka agreed.”
It is Russia not pushing for ground. They are taking out the Ukraine soldiers with ease. Some of you think this is a conquest. If Russia wanted to, they could march to London with ease.