Fleecing-Russia Fantasies Still Flourishing: The proxy war in Ukraine is running out of Ukrainians, but the West’s delusions are dying hard

In the war in and over Ukraine, Russian forces are continuing an accelerating advance at the “fastest pace since 2022,” as the robustly Russophobic and gung-ho New York Times admits. On the Ukrainian side, the battlefield situation is “precarious,” the Washington Post recognizes, and signs of exhaustion and demoralization are increasing. American demand…