So you give them the guns and the money.

And the dudes? Who supplies those? Gonna hire Blackwater x10 to do the job?

But those nations won their wars anyway, because they only needed to outlast the invading power's desire to keep fighting

Sigh. I don’t know who put this Vietnam/Afghanistan analogy together but whoever it is flunked history.

Let’s say Vietnam is your example. You realize that for it to work that Putin would be sitting in Kyiv right now, right? And that the Viet Cong/NVA had PLENTY of dudes, guns and money, right?

No. The situation in the Ukraine more resembles France, 1917, where a tactical stalemate has been going on for over a year. The Brits were running out of dudes, were broke, and half the French army was in mutiny.

What broke the stalemate? 1 millions American dudes.

Your “small country” analogy is wildly off in the present scenario.

Zelensky is either an idiot or is delusional. Why? Because he’s not winning on the front lines and he’s out of dudes, guns and money but he talks like he has plenty of all 3.

He’s not acting rationally. A rational leader knows when to talk and he doesn’t. Ergo, Trump had to work on him to get him to the table.

BTW. The mineral areas of the Ukraine are behind Putin’s lines. Does that suggest to you that the US now has a stake in these negotiations?