You have consistently asserted that the reason Ukraine can't win on their present course was that they lack the guns, money and dudes to drive out the Russians. Throughout the American Revolution, the Continental Army including their French allies also lacked the guns, money and dudes to drive out the British.

Huh? The French were the ones providing the trifecta of dudes, guns and money. You're making my point for me.

The fact that the Continental Army's forces also included the French does not change that.

You mean other than France having significant skin in the game, far more on a relative scale than NATO has today?

Yet they still won, because the British chose to leave after it became in their best interests to do so.

They didn't have a choice. They lost on the battlefield and had 7-8k of their soldiers in American prison camps. They weren't really in charge of the Colonies after that point.

And Russia is only able to hold a modest portion of Ukraine. They're not "holding" the entire country when 80% of the land area and the largest cities (they never got Kyev or Odessa, they lost Kharkiv) are held by the Patrio...I mean, the Ukrainian Army.

Apples/Oranges. When from 2020-2021 did Russia control all of the Ukraine? When was "Russia" - as its government is presently constructed - ever in charge there?

On the economic and diplomatic battlefields - and by forcing the Russians to maintain some of their military forces in defensive posture against any potential NATO threat.

You yourself ruled out the kind of secondary sanctions that would really hurt Putin. You dislike the secondary tariffs but they've forced Russia to further slash the price of oil:
timesnownews.com - India defies US pressure resumes buying russian oil china may face supply squeeze article
New Delhi: India’s state-run refiners have resumed purchases of Russian crude for September and October delivery after a brief pause, lured back by wider discounts, two company officials told Reuters on Wednesday. The move comes just weeks after New Delhi faced sharp criticism from Washington over its Russian oil purchases.

Good. Keep driving the price of Russian oil down to zero.

The French were directly involved in the fighting in and around the continent. The parallels with NATO today simply do not exist.