Paywalled

I sometimes wonder why Eastern European citizens keep electing Russian sycophants in key places in their governments. As soon as one country throws one out, a different country elects a new one.

How long until Russia hits a material "wall"(late 2026? 2027?) where it can no longer launch offensive operations and the Kremlin pivots toward freezing the conflict allowing Moscow to lock in its marginal territorial gains in the Donbas, declare the "demilitarization" of Ukraine complete, and spin their costly stalemate as a victory to it's citizenry?

I doubt these countries clutching pearls about having to supply a pittance of military aid to the Ukraine will need to do so much longer. Meh.