To those who keep saying the “mighty” Russia can fight a long war. The accumulative effects of sanctions, conscription and military demands on infrastructure is causing a slow motion implosion in Russia. Putin is possibly preparing the option to withdraw and announce he won by defeating Ukraine and has fought NATO to defeat an invasion of Russia. THese lines have been emerging on Russia state media for months.
The war isn’t over when Putin says so. It’s over when Ukraine decides it’s over.
It’s over when Ukraine’s military collapses because it has no more forced-conscripted old men, boys, and women left to throw into the meat grinder. Or when the west recognizes it’s a lost cause and decides they had better come up with some excuses and a new narrative in order to pull support. Both of these things are already slowly beginning to happen.