Recent interview of the former Israeli PM Bennett seems to have confirmed your conclusions once again. These were, though, pretty obvious for any person who doesn't huddle under the umbrella of Dem Party & US deep state propaganda publishings like Politico, WaPo etc. Of course, Zelensky’s toadies-in-arms (Podolyak, Reznikov, Arestovich, and Kuleba) immediately agitated and began to denounce the facts mentioned by Bennett. They might succeed on their home ground, sure, but the cat is increasingly letting herself go out of the bag. There’ll come a time for the Ukraine war (including the civil conflict phases in 2014 and then 2016 — 22) to be evaluated as yet another ‘tragic miscalculation’, where ‘staggering variety and complexity’ gracefully sings along with melancholy strings of ‘the geopolitical intentions of our adversaries’ which the US turned out unable to comprehend.

I have a strong gut feeling that when this time comes and the smoke settles Zelensky and his complicitors will already nowhere to be found in Ukraine. However I’d have advised them to study history of Vietnam war, starting from January 1967, thoroughly, or simply to ask Kissinger as a first-hand witness.