It looks like the circus show is finally over for the nefarious little Sprechstallmeister-at-Arms. Lid closed, monkey dead, like it should have been already in Istanbul.

Post-war Ukraine will be a bankrupt, mostly empty country, with devastated and worn-out, mostly legacy infrastructure, escalating national debt. I wouldn’t exclude the possibility that Kiev regime stays stupid enough to continue the strategy of male hostage-taking, denying them (those who’ll have remained alive and not press-ganged) free cross-border movement.

All in all, Ukraine got nothing from the oath of fealty before the West, except blood, ruin, and internal conflict.

I’m pretty sure that if something will have left of Ukraine after ceasefire, this territory will be quickly engulfed by daily violence or even the next civil war, between far right nationalist fanatics and everyone else of those who are definitely sick of conflict with Russia.