My pleasure, Alex.

I said that the Russians cannot win the war, and that was already back in early March. This remains that way.

My pleasure, Alex.

I said that the Russians cannot win the war, and that was already back in early March. This remains that way.

(Please mind: for me, 'inability to win a war' and 'defeat' are two different things.)

The question now is whether they might 'convince somebody on the other side' to 'go for something lesser than a complete Russian withdrawal from Ukraine'.