The Goal is simple: Lose the war but win the peace. Ukraine can get back all the lost land at the Peace Table with UK/USA and NATO Block backing them. Russia has a few aces in the hole to play. China, Weak Biden, Winter, EU going downhill fast. These are dangerous times, my friend. The USA Today is not the USA of 2009. We have been living on past glories and not keeping up. We shall be strangled by our own successes.
Ukraine can get back all the lost land at the Peace Table
It’s quite the opposite, actually. Russia will never negotiate away the stolen land bridge and the site of the worst war crime of the 21st century in Mariupol.
Russia has lost the shooting war and now the big push for “peace” will come from the Muscovite Kremlin and its fellow travelers. That “peace” gaslighting is a Bolshevik old saw and no more genuine now than at any time in the past 100+ years. Russian occupiers are free to leave Ukraine at any time. Nobody will stop them.