We ve got desertions, we ve got people quitting. you have russia looking weaker than they ever have. now they re going into donbas again, an area that they could not subjugate for eight years. so we actually find ourselves in this remarkable position where the what is keeping us, according to a lot of people, from a peace deal in this war is how weak russia is performing and putin is looking for an opportunity to go to the negotiating table with strength. he just can t do it because his troops keep losing to the ukrainians. yeah, it is a remarkable contraction of war aims for moscow, now just focusing on the donbas, barely getting more territory than they hoped from 2014. on the note of diplomacy it didn t receive the attention. boris johnson s visit but the chancellor of austria met with