We're coming up on Month 5 of the fabled four week Ukrainian offensive that was to have pushed the Russians back to Moscow by August. The Ukranians are estimated to have taken more than a quarter of a million casualties, are almost totally out of armored vehicles and are largely down to attacking in waves like zombies by drugging their conscripted soldiers with methamphetamine. We've even seen the most blatant attempt at a CIA color revolution in our lifetimes in the form of the hastily aborted Wagner rebellion, and the company has since largely been absorbed into the Russian Ministry of Defense. And we've finally started seeing fatigue set in within the US political system as the normally cowardly cuckolds of the Republican party are now suggesting that pouring a third of the defense budget into the most corrupt country on earth might have been a bad idea.
Thus I ask, how do you think the conflict will be resolved?
One small caveat, since I haven't seen this mentioned much on the site. The Russians officially consider the United States a belligerent in the war, and won't accept negotiations brokered by the US government. Turns out lend lease isn't a trick that works twice.
This. I don't see a dmz style agreement being possible at this point. The Minsk agreements were publicly revealed to be a fake out to buy time to arm Ukraine so I don't blame them for possibly seeing any similar agreement not being trustworthy. I think the Russians will probably have to go all the way at this point because any agreement will just be a way for the west to funnel arms in and attack the breakaway regions. It might of been possible before NATO made this a full proxy war but not anymore.
The age of America cutting international deals is over. No one trusts America anymore, no one has faith in the weaponized fiat US dollar anymore.