I think the big difference from months past is that there's this wide spread realisation that this is going to be a long conflict. The meeting in Jeddah, which were dubbed peace talks, but they're not really peace talks at all, because the Russians were not there. But what they're really about is garnering support from non-committal countries from the global south - and significantly China was there. In two weeks there'sGoing to be a diplomatic plus civil society emission going to India, because the Ukrainians would very much like support from India. I think they would like Indian weaponry as well, because they need a constant supply of weaponry, and especially ammunition from wherever it can
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