Curtailing aid to Ukraine will only prolong the war, Mr Zelensky argues. And it would create risks for the West in its own backyard. There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries would react to their country being abandoned. Ukrainians have generally “behaved well” and are “very grateful” to those who sheltered them. They will not forget that generosity. But it would not be a “good story” for Europe if it were to “drive these people into a corner”.

what if the winning strategy for destroying The West was to induce it to repeatedly finance, supply, train, and betray terror operations against its geopolitical rivals until many peripheral states become networked together, united only by a hatred of their perfidious former benefactors.