British General Names 3 Scenarios for Ending Putin's War

British General Names 3 Scenarios for Putin to End the War Anzhelika Galesevich

Russian leader Vladimir Putin can end the war for three reasons: a decisive military victory, an inability to win militarily, or unacceptable losses of manpower, economically, militarily, and politically.

Retired British Armed Forces Major General Chip Chapman expressed this opinion to Channel 24, noting that Putin will wage an eternal war until the Russian army leaves the battlefield, the population gets tired of it, or the elite deserts.

Why the fighting is not cease

A British general said that any fighting ceases for 3 reasons:

• a decisive military victory, which does not seem likely now;
• the impossibility of a military victory, which seems more likely. But Putin still believes that strategic procrastination is on his side;
• unacceptable losses both economically and politically, and militarily, as well as in manpower.

This is what Ukraine is trying to do now. And that is what Putin sought to do when he switched to attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, Chapman noted.

One of the reasons why the fighting does not stop is the need for maximum victory to justify the losses or sacrifices incurred.

What negotiations can be like

Thus, Putin will wage an endless war until either the Russian army leaves the battlefield, as it did in 1917, or until the people get tired of it, or there is desertion among the elite.

I'm not sure it will be 2025. I hope so, but it is more likely that Putin is on the strategic defensive, not Ukraine, said Chip Chapman.

According to him, the number one priority in Donald Trump's foreign policy is to come to some kind of resolution, if not this year, then in the near future.

However, negotiations can be difficult. For example, it took 2 years and 500 meetings to reach an armistice in the Korean War of 1953.

Note that Trump's special representative for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, said that Ukraine and Russia should be ready to make concessions.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is of the same opinion. He has repeatedly emphasized that this happens in any negotiations. Zelensky has already responded to Kellogg's words.