The Ukrainians are now taking sixty casualties per square mile [of advance]—sustainable in numbers but the forces left are mostly previously draft-exempt rejects recently dragooned into the army.” Asked if some in Europe would vigorously reject a change in the Ukraine leadership, the US official predicted that “no one in Europe is going to sacrifice country life and weekends in Paris to support Zelensky. The Europeans will all go along.” The official reminded me, disdainfully, of Europe’s insistence that the Ukraine air force be provided with American built F-16 fighter airplanes and additional training in