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.”
They are winning as they are still independent. Devastated but independent. As opposed to devastated and erased off the map.