Their "Green" Strategy

Those leaders pushing the environmental agenda are not doing it to save the planet or help the people but to feather their own nests. They are forcing an end to clean-burning natural gas water heaters that actually deliver hot showers when you want them. It is not because these household essentials have not been working, are inefficient, or have harmed earth. They are insisting on the replacements because they or their cronies are making the so-called "clean" new technology, that is no cleaner and often is made entirely with or with components from Red China, the country damaging the planet the most, the one that is the enemy of America, and the one that uses slave (prisoner labor) to make virtually everything. Yes, the scheme is a "green" one- green as in billions of US dollars- to supplant a real market-driven economy with a phony one that will benefit those forcing it on a public that does not want it like modern day emperors, who steal your choices to grab your wealth. 

Engine of Prosperity

For America, the internal combustion engine is the literal driver of our everyday lives and prosperity. The United States is not tiny Belgium or relatively small Britain. We are a massive nation that takes up huge parts of a large continent. Alaska alone is over twice as large as France (and electric vehicle batteries do not hold charges in cold weather like our forty-ninth state experiences most of the year). Your Tesla is fine for a run to the grocery two miles away and adequate for the two hour daily commute between your home and work then back at the end of your labors, but completely unsuited to drive from Maine to San Diego, unless you have an extra month to spare for all your two hour at a time recharging breaks, as opposed to the five minutes it takes to fuel up at the gas station. Not to mention, that there are many thousands of US gasoline pumps, everywhere from convenience stores to massive wholesale clubs, but so far, only a few thousand readily accessible charging stations, and even those are often inaccessible to electric vehicle owners because someone arrived there first and needs two hours on the plug to ensure they make it to the next charging station. Also, in many places, that electricity is anything but "green energy" and the battery in your electric car has slave labor all over it in the process of harvesting rare earth minerals to make it and Uyghur prisoner labor used to assemble it. Your "clean energy" turns out to be pretty dirty after all. Finally, the elite want your freedom of movement restricted, so that they don't have to share the road with you and can take their gas guzzling SUVs and limousines wherever they want without worrying about being stuck in traffic behind common folk like me. 

Not Leaving Crimea

I can envision no circumstances where Russia leaves or is expelled from Crimea. If Zelenskyy insists this expulsion is the objective of the Ukraine, it will never be realized. The West must not tie itself to this pie in the sky goal.  

Perhaps Offering Terms

It has been reported that Russia may be offering the Ukraine a way out of the slaughter, and that the offer is NOT unconditional surrender. This, if true, could mean the bloodbath is nearing an end, except that Zelenskyy still has maximalist notions that his depleted forces can fully evict Russians from what he considers Ukrainian territory. He can't, anymore than Putin could subdue all resistance within the Ukraine short of killing everyone and everything there with nuclear weapons. You don't make peace with friends (because you don't have to), but sometimes you must compromise with enemies simply to survive. 

Depends on Definition

The forces of the Ukraine still could win, if we consider victory not permitting Putin total conquest. The problem is that after the unnecessary and ill-considered offensive that Ukrainian forces undertook under Western pressure, they have lost half of their professional soldiers with their most elite units (with the exception of Zelenskyy's personal security detail) the hardest hit. It will now be a close run thing to see if Kyiv has sufficient forces left to retain the territory it is now in control of because fresh, minimally-trained conscripts are no substitute for experienced combat veterans. 

Not in Cards

I believe the goal of the leadership of the Ukraine at the onset of the Russian aggression was simply not to be conquered entirely. This Ukrainian objective was obtainable and worthy. Then pressure from the West that was tiring of donating so much money came for the outnumbered and outgunned forces of Kyiv to go on the offensive. When Zelenskyy had secured relatively defensible lines and could declare a stalemate with Russia a "win", the United States and other so-called allies insisted Ukraine attack. Victory over Putin had previously been considered maintaining territory and not allowing the entire nation to fall to Russian forces, which Ukrainian heroism had accomplished, but to move forward assaulting superior forces in prepared positions that were and are ultimately backed by the largest nuclear arsenal on earth was foolhardy and self-defeating. Ukraine had squandered so many men in the process that now they may not have enough forces left to thwart a Russian counteroffensive. The Ukrainians should not have bent to Western coercion to launch what turned out to be suicide attacks. They of course wanted all of what they perceived as Ukrainian territory liberated but never had the military capacity to beat stronger forces back, and by succumbing to America and anti-Russian backers aligned with Biden, they have made an outright loss by the Ukraine much more likely. 

Not Another Dollar

Ukraine is awash with foreign aid and a little of it is actually reaching the troops trying to hold off the Russians. Until audits are completed to ferret out the corruption (which is massive), I would say America should not send Zelenskyy another cent.