They want to twist and turn the analysis to make Trump always appear wrong.

It may be that if Russia is about to experience less battlefield success, Trump feels there is less need for extreme sanctions.

And since the European hardliners (against Russia) want to see Russia weakened, they are in no rush to end the fighting (rightly or wrongly).

As always, I’ll trust in Trump to navigate this.

No, he is done with both sides

If one played the scenario where Russia ends up economically destroyed....with Putin ‘out’, Russia could dissolve into a dozen-odd states and no longer being a adversary...leaving just China.

The US military industry probably would not want that type of ending.