I agree and feel that at this point the west just wants to buy time for the humiliation and the Ukrainians themselves are Nazi-loving and imitating fanatics and Zelensky is personally done once the war ends because of the disaster he led his people to so like Netanyahu he’s desperate to keep the war burning.

Feel bad for the non-Nazi Ukrainians who are being thrown into the meat grinder. Also badly for Russian troops who are dying grinding them down until we get a fall of Berlin moment and wondering just how bad things will get.

With enough time sadly comes hubris and all kinds of fanciful lies. The west was beaten in Vietnam but it took long enough that they made up all kinds of cope and their populations didn’t receive the shock of a sudden dramatic defeat and reversal but rather a slow decline which left them appearing stronger than they were even in defeat and I think this is the point. The west cannot inflict a strategic defeat on Russia but they want their own defeat to be very costly, very hard-won, and take so long that it doesn’t look so bad and by the end people have forgotten all the propaganda lies about how Russia would be defeated quickly.

A boxer who goes down in overtime doesn’t look nearly as badly as one who goes down at the end of the first round.