Quote Originally Posted by Jampie View Post
Russia will never win the war at the rate they're going either. At their present rate of advance they'll be at Kyiv again in a decade or two. Putin is not immortal, and whoever replaces him might be smart enough to blame the whole idea on Putin and pull out in exchange for sanctions lifting.

Handing Putin the land he's stolen so far is a victory for him (pyrrhic, likely, but still), and will encourage future adventures from him, his eventual Russian replacement, and other dictators. I don't think that's a good option. Add onto that the fact that he has broken numerous international agreements and commitments and so no ceasefire terms he signs can be trusted...

As long as the Ukrainians are willing to fight on, we should be supporting them, and we should be doing a much better job of it than we have to date.
Trump will say to Ukraine, it's better to give to Russia what they've taken and get a ceasefire than have the risk of Ukraine being laid to waste. Their choice is do that, or keep fighting Putin without any US funding or military support.

One of us will be right.