As I've been saying for well over a year, the endgame is clear: Russia simply out-lasts the fickle flabby indecisive inconstant West. Since the beginning of Putin's invasion the West has completely failed to act decisively, and Ukraine has paid a terrible price. Now it's clear empty-headed Western citizens are bored with stories about Ukraine and the fascist US Republican Party is eager to hand Ukraine to Putin by choking off all US aid, without which Ukraine has zero chance of maintaining resistance. Russia, like Hamas, may be much weaker than it appears but we are much, much, much weaker because we have no capacity to stand up in a meaningful way to external aggression.