I recommend you read Yulia Latynina’s take on the war in Ukraine at The Hill. If you’re not familiar with her work she is a libertarian and is opposed to Russia’s war in Ukraine. She’s been declared a foreign agent by the regime. Here’s the conclusion of her piece:
Still, in Ukraine, the political reckoning for the failed summer offensive is coming. Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Valery Zaluzhny, just admitted that the war is at a stalemate, and Oleksiy Arestovich — formerly an advisor to the president, brilliant and eccentric, who had an almost magic sway on the crowds in the first months of war — has just launched his presidential campaign with a hitherto taboo suggestion that Ukraine can forgo occupied territories in exchange for joining NATO. It was this breaking of ranks that prompted Zelenskyy’s desperate speech about “divisive manipulations.â€
While Ukrainian democracy, wounded and traumatized, is slowly waking to the unpalatable truth, the Russian dictator lives in an alternate reality in which he is fighting a world war against America — and winning.
In the piece she comments on a number of developments of which I was unaware. Very imformative.
