So, I guess we're expected to now believe the war in Ukraine is over, mostly because the USG and its corporate lie factory media insist Ukrainians are cowards not interested in throwing away their lives for actor-comedian-cum-president Zelenskyy and an oligarch-controlled Nazi-Mafia state, the most corrupt country in Europe.

But wait. TIME has spun a new hopeful fantasy on Ukraine. "The situation in Ukraine still favors Kyiv despite the limited progress made in the counteroffensive so far," according to the neocon Frederick Kagan, Karolina Hird, a "Russian analyst" at the neocon-infested Institute for the Study of War (or, more accurately, for the promotion of endless war), and Kateryna Stepanenko, also an ISW "analyst" pushing for war with Russia, never mind Russia's preponderance of thermonuclear weapons and advanced military hardware.

Kagan, of course, is lying, either that or he is dumb as a fence pole.