Comments by "Trevor Sutherland" (@trevorsutherland5263) on "Retired American General on the war in Ukraine, strategy u0026 the future | Ukraine: The Latest Podcast" video.

  1. Strategically, the war is over. Tactically they are still shooting at each other, but from a political standpoint its done. The political goal of removing Russia by force from 45,000 square miles of territory failed; Ukraine got less than 1% of the territory back in six months for loss of $200B. Zaluzhny confirmed such a goal is not achievable and would require massively more money and even then there is no guarantee. Russia has no interest in occupying the rest of Ukraine; the areas they annexed hold the Russia populations they were concerned with; at this point Russia is simply in a "protect what we already have" mode. NATO failed to get what it wanted as the sponsor, and Ukraine failed to get what it wanted as the proxy. Next year there will be elections and Zelensky may not win; Ukraine may choose a different future than the one he envisioned.
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