Message #45987

[mccoy]

Zelenski's ideas are very understandable, but are they realistic? Russia is weathering very well the sanctions imposed by the West. How long could she go on? In the meanwhile, Ukraine keeps being devastated and Zelenski is losing much consensus among the population.

The West has kept so far the promise, but two years have been longer than expected and other wars are distracting the public opinion.

The above being said I'm not in favor of easy concessions to Russia, but perhaps Zelenski should change some of his radical views. He has already made serious strategic errors like insisting on keeping terrain where it would have been easier to draw back (to the expense of many casualties). Ukrainian troops are not unlimited and Russia has a vast number of people on which to draw.