focused on , their focus on the part of ukraine that has been historically more russian than the west. there are russian speakers in eastern ukraine, and the theory is always in moscow, and more friendly to russian designs, the reality has been that it hasn t been. and russian here, even russian speakers, even russia sympathetic ukrainians have opposition against moscow. they do not want moscow, to quote unquote, save them. so i think you are finding that russia is trying to find a way to save face, by carving a roiled event that will basically go away. they will basically accept these new lines on the map, in the way that the world didn t in 2014 when they seized crimea. and essentially seized in a way, donetsk and done it s to begin with. it s a whole new ball game in 2014, zelenskyy has shown that ukrainians have a great deal of resilience, as you said. they re not gonna accept the
skeptical of the general s comments today. forget the comments, don t pay attention to what they re saying. remember the peoples who said they were assembling a large invasion but weren t planning to invade. so it s probably what we ll see on the ground. that s the most important indicator here. and the indicators here aren t focused on , their focus on the part of ukraine that has been historically more russian than the west. there are russian speakers in eastern ukraine, and the theory is always in moscow, and more friendly to russian designs, the reality has been that it hasn t been. and russian here, even russian speakers, even russia insists aesthetic ukrainians have opposition against moscow. they do not want moscow, to quote unquote, save them. so i think you are finding that russia is trying to find a way to save face, by carving a roiled event that will basically go away. they will basically accept these new lines on the map, in the way that the world didn t