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Yup, I am also looking forward to finding Zelensky in Spain in a couple of months at the beach.

That's what you want, not what is going to happen. I've seen an uncountable number of similar "predictions" in 2022. Where are those trolls now?

The 2022 predictions of Russia's imminent collapse are looking pretty bad as well. Do you call the people who were predicting that trolls? This was has already lasted longer than early-war internet commenters on both sides said it would.

No fair picking on the predictions of others without exposing myself to the same, so here is my prediction: eventually cease fire terms will be agreed upon when both sides become too weary to continue and the war will "end" in a frozen conflict that won't see a satisfactorily conclusion for generations. Think Korea.

Those were too naive to believe some tectonic changes are possible in a dictatorship, where the overwhelming majority at least passively supports the regime. Meanwhile, the "Zelensky was evacuated by Polish forces" is a narrative that was pushed by the Kremlin during the initial months.

A ceasefire is feasible, but given that both sides have unsatisfied medium sized goals in mind, I don't think that it will hold for long.

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