Is It the End Game or Is It Continued Escalation?

I think what's going on here is and I suspected this you know from the beginnings that we are trying to engage them in a war of attrition and it's working. The west collectively is trying to further that goal of just making Russia economically politically militarily culturally irrelevant or angled in some way. He keeps losing economically, he's going to keep losing and and politically who would ever want to engage Putin in anything with You know any kind of cultural or international trade? It's going to be a disaster for him. So this war of attrition Has to resolve itself with some sort of settlement, but we just can't go on for two or three years, can it?