RUSSIA HAS ALREADY WON, BUT UKRAINE AND THE WEST EITHER DOESN'T REALIZE IT OR WON'T ADMIT IT.
Ukraine can not sustain itself without massive capital improvements to restore power, water, sewer, communications, transportation, hospitals, housing etc.Those improvements can not be made during a war time. If Ukraine was a person you could say that it is a "Dead Man Walking."
Putin knows this. Time is on his side. If Putin can survive, he just needs to wait and let the Ukrainian people suffer until they're willing to make the peace deal he can live with.
A vast amount of Ukraine's natural resource wealth will have to be spent on rebuilding Ukraine. Those improvements are essentially "The spoils of the war." There is no way that Putin/Russia wants those improvements to be made by Western companies. And there's no way Western companies want to let those spoils go to Russia and China.
The battle at this point is for the peace and who gets the spoils. Meanwhile the Ukrainian people suffer! Such is the real tragedy of war!
"IF WE DON'T END THE WAR, THE WAR WILL END US." H.G. WELLS
THE WAR PIGS ARE AT IS AGAIN!
UKRAINE - SAME SHIT! DIFFERENT WAR.