Hardly. I'm against a no fly zone and giving Ukraine 300km range HIMARS missiles due to escalation risk. Giving viable air defense systems to Ukraine is a better, less risky option.

Zelenskiy is ready to negotiate with a post-Putin Russia. This provides an incentive for the FSB and other security agencies to overthrow him to save themselves. The Germans in 1917-18 understood this and made peace with the Bolshevik bacillus--Lenin--they'd sent into post-Tsarist provisional government Russia in April 1917. The result was the treaety of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918, which the Bolsheviks had no choice but to sign, even though it detached most of Ukraine from Russia.

You're psychologizing me instead of writing analysis.

Are you scared of the Germans and Japanese? Of course not. You know why? Stunde null levels of humiliation and apocalyptic defeat. This is fundamental to the psychology of empire demolition.

General Sherman understood this in his march from Atlanta to the sea: "make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it.”

We must make Russia as nauseous and ill at the very idea of restoring empire as Germany and Japan now are. Half-defeated empires never reach that point. Violate these rules of history and you pay a higher price later from having to do the same job twice.

In the Russian case it doesn't marching on Moscow. It means defeat severe enough to trigger empire implosion from within in Karelia, Tatarstan, Bashkiria, Buryatia, Yakutia, Dagestan, Kalmykia, Komy, Chechnya, Chuvash, Vladivostok, etc. We must finish the process of empire demolition that began in 1917, continued, though incomplete, in 1991.