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Footage has been posted on social networks showing the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “fighting” with Russian servicemen. However, the cameras get into the video, the voice of the director is heard and the soldiers react to the commands of the film crew. (Click link for short Video)

Once we have eliminated all the impossible scenarios, the least improbable outcome of the war in Ukraine is a Russian victory. Any conceivable Russian victory now will entail such a loss of blood and treasure that it will have to be judged Pyrrhic at best. But it will be a victory nonetheless — and we in the West had better come to grips with that hard truth. Let’s begin by eliminating the impossible. The first unrealistic endgame is the reduction of Ukraine to a vassal state of the Russian empire. The second impossible scenario is the total defeat of the...