Historical parallels to the War of Independence (and others) do not suggest Ukraine should sue for peace.
youtu.be/3wMCTv_9alQ?...

The analogy between a casino and the Kremlin is staggering!
youtu.be/0bwid-03LBg?...

I read the article. I think the "disagreement" between Putin and Zelenski has one more dimension. Putin is certain that he could take the fortress belt before he runs out of cash, troops, rockets, patience. Zelenski and the West think otherwise. More time is needed to see who's wrong and who's right

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Things are getting even better. Now a "witness" on the Kremlin draft - journalist Christo Grozev - claims this is a six months old Russian plan. Another proof this has been a Russian info op. All the West has been played by Kremlin's leak.

The saga around the "peace proposal" is getting from comical to farcical. Obviously, Rubio was not in the loop. At that point it was a Russian draft. Then Trump saw it and it became a US draft. The RU leak overachieved its goal. Молодцьi!

The DMZ creates more questions than gives answers. Who's gonna control the DMZ? Russia? Because there won't be any NATO troops there. This DMZ looks very much like a Minsk DMZ, which was not a DMZ. There is an inherent contradiction between the DMZ and NATO troops outside Ukraine.

The good thing here is that there's no cap on the number of drones in the UA army. Seems more decisive than the number of people.

Although there are valid points in prof. Galeotti's latest podcast piece, i was surprised that in his argument against the purists, he points out they are not in the trenches to decide. BUT, Ukrainians ARE in the trenches and they REFUSE this plan. Here prof. Galeotti's argument fails.