“...Ivan doesn’t fight wars “ safe”, he fights to win...”
So, your eleven-time-zone country has been fighting for 16 months against a one-time-zone country and has been pushed out of Kherson, northern Ukraine, and northeast Ukraine. The Russian criminal invaders and human traffickers are not winning anything but Russian cemetery enlargements.
Let me remind you they now own four new oblasts. They aren’t giving them up. Sad as it may sound, it is reality.
Let’s hope Vlad continues to show restraint, Odesa may still be in his cards. It depends on how much the collective West escalates.