Subject: Re: Let’s See If This Pans Out for Putin
I would continue to supply and fund the Ukrainian military, continue (or increase) the economic sanctions on Russia, work to improve relations with countries like India that have to buy Russian oil in order to avoid crippling their economy but can be induced to forgo Russian energy through diplomacy, etc.

We do zero business with Russia. The only way you punish Russia is to sanction the countries we *both* have business with. That's China and India, and you ruled that out in your last post.

So no joy there.

He's not losing on the battlefield, but neither can he win on the battlefield if the West stays resolute in supporting Ukraine. The West has cards to continue playing, because Russia doesn't have the economic resources to keep doing this indefinitely. Ukraine alone doesn't either, but Ukraine backed by the entire West certainly does.

Zelensky lacks the dudes, the guns and the money to push Putin out.

Before long, he's going to start lacking the dudes to even stay in the fight.

The west has been saying "We'll sanction Putin and he'll quit, you'll see" for 3 and a half years now and Putin is showing no signs of slowing down. He's still able to feed bodies into the fight and he's still able to procure munitions.

So what now?