Putin Won

 https://www.newsweek.com/putin-russia-trump-winning-2030475

On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his people why he was launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in what he called a "special military operation."

"As NATO expands to the east, with every passing year, the situation for our country is getting worse and more dangerous," he said in a televised address, immediately before his forces launched their assault.

"Moreover, in recent days the leadership of NATO has been openly talking about the need to speed up, and force the advancement of the alliance's infrastructure to the borders of Russia. In other words, they are doubling down on their position. We can no longer just watch what is happening."

Aftr nearly three years of war—a war that has cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides—that aim now appears to have been fulfilled, and it is Ukraine that must stand and watch.

President Donald Trump said that he had agreed to talks with Putin, and he and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth effectively rejected Ukraine's chances of returning to pre-invasion borders or NATO membership.

As sidelined European leaders reeled in shock, the verdict from Carlo Masala, a professor at the Bundeswehr University of Munich, was clear. "Putin will have won this war from this point of view," he told Bild.