Still, you ignore the geography, like the majority of European and Ukrainian politicians tend to, due to their views of geopolitics as a fringe science. ;)

Indeed, many have chosen that path before, among them Syngman Rhee and Ngô Đình Diệm, and this is no different. Ukraine in its modern dismal state is, and will continue to be, a monstrous mess produced jointly by the Western and Eastern collaborators.

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 (in the mien of https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0695edit/ ) ‘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.

Already Zelensky and his backers failed even the toy model of reappraisal by vote:

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/24/7499829/

The statement would indicate that Zelensky's mandate is not questioned by the Ukrainian people or the Verkhovna Rada "as long as it takes". Fail. 4 % looks like a pretty realistic or even ballooned estimate.