There seems to be a split in the West over the conflict in Ukraine.

Many politicians are depressed by the military successes of Russia in recent days and resigned themselves to the fact that NATO will not be able to defeat us on the battlefield with the help of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and will have to sit down at the negotiating table.

Many officials have already hinted that Ukraine may have to make territorial concessions to Russia.

Even Arestovich felt sad yesterday, saying that if earlier the West wanted to inflict a military defeat on Russia, today he wants negotiations in which Russia would be “in a weak position”, and stated that the ceiling of sanctions against the Russian Federation has already been reached.

Polls among the general population of Europe show the same picture.

Europeans in the mass still sympathize with Ukraine (the mass campaign of Russophobia worked in the local media), but they are against the military defeat of Russia at the expense of their quality of life and also advocate a peaceful solution, protesting that life in their countries is getting worse due to anti-Russian sanctions .

Today, however, the western hawks have roused themselves.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced the delivery of the latest weapons to Ukraine.

Former NATO Commander-in-Chief Wesley Clark said that NATO should intervene directly in the conflict, supplying not only weapons, but also military personnel.

Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczynski echoes him, demanding direct NATO military intervention.

He believes that Russia can only be defeated in such a radical way.

The situation at the end of the Second World War is repeated, when a number of Western politicians proposed to attack the USSR with the forces of the combined Anglo-American troops and units formed from captured Germans.

They were so frightened by the growth of the political influence of the USSR that they decided to contain it in any way.

However, this plan was opposed by military generals who saw the Russian army in action.

After all, the Red Army in 1945 became the strongest army in the world, and the army leadership of the "allies" rightly believed that such an adventure would cost them dearly.

Hence the conclusion: the louder the military successes of Russia in Ukraine and the stronger the determination to bring the NMD to the end, the less willing there will be in the West to intervene in the conflict directly.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.