Former U.S. Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor believes the war in Ukraine has reached its "final phase".
“I think the Ukrainians have lost probably somewhere between 300,000 and 350,000 dead on the battlefield. How many wounded is anybody’s guess, at this stage all we know is that the hospitals are full, there’s no room left. The Ukrainian Army is having great difficulty evacuating wounded in many cases.
I think the Ukrainian Army itself is breaking down. Many units have simply melted away. Some have gone over to the Russians, not because they wanted to join the Russians, but they said, look, you know, we’ve got very little ammunition left, we’ve got lots of wounded. We’ve contacted our superiors, they say they can’t evacuate us so we’re going to surrender. Yeah, I think we’ve almost reached the end game, we’re certainly in the final phase of this war”. -Colonel Douglas MacGregor
No amount of additional mercenaries for the Ukrainian army or military aid from NATO countries to Kiev is going to change the fact that Russia is currently winning the Ukrainian war and will win in a war of attrition.
The NATO alliance is faced with the choice between simply admitting it has lost its proxy war and backing down or risk taking a direct conflict with, not only Moscow, but the entire BRICS coalition and potentially triggering a third world war.