the 21st a. it s one day at a time. but the feeling is is that it s stalled. i have a relative who has recently been to the front line, and he says in some areas of kyiv, the front line moved away from keefe. and it became in some ways easier to travel. previously he couldn t. something has happened. but it s really very little dynamic, except for mariupol. mariupol is really in a very difficult situation. is it the contention of you and your government that was sufficient military aid from nato eu in the west, and you can hand the russians an outright military defeat? is that the best case scenario of how you see this war? you have to define defeat.
The key lesson should be that the international community cannot continue to make an artificial distinction between a regime's internal and external policies.