What will happen to public opinion in what's left of Ukraine when people in the EU are freezing to death this winter and starving next year? Meanwhile, their relatives in eastern/southern Ukraine will be prosperously rebuilding. Will people in rump Ukraine continue pushing to join the EU, or will they prefer being open to Russian food and gas?

And what of the people in the EU itself? They aren't stupid. They know who did this incredibly destructive, nihilistic thing. The world knows. The US will be isolated, with not a single genuine ally.

There will be no negotiated settlement. Russia has already destroyed the bulk of NATO military equipment on the ground in Ukraine, and has shown the capability of overwhelming NATO artillery 10:1. NATO has already lost this widened war, but is too stupid to see that and will continue until Novorossiya consists of everything east of the Dnieper as well as Kherson, Mikolaev and Odessa oblasts. Let us all hope the globalists give up on Ukraine without resorting to nuclear war.

BTW, Caitlin, your definition of "think tank" is priceless.