Latvia

I wish the rest of the West would listen to Latvia about a no-fly zone for Ukraine, becaue the news of the war is getting ever more depressing. Russia and Ukraine have reached a kind of stalemete in which neither side can claim victory. usually that opens the door to compromise, but I don't think that will ocur. Instead, Russia will destroy what it can't win, turning Ukraine into a devistated, bombed out wasteland full of corpses. The Ukrainians won't give up - they will fight to the end, and the end will last a very long time - but they won't be able to keep the apocalypse from happening.

And we wil watch, because while we are ok with helping Ukraine lose the war more slowly, we draw the line at helping them win it. We're so scared of WW3, we will insure it will indeed come to pass once Putin sees what temporizers we are. People will look back at this and marvel at the gutless, shortsighted choices the West is now making.