❗"The Russians will win this war. And the West pretends to be blind and talks about peace" In an interview with NZZ, French historian Emmanuel Todd takes a sledgehammer to the glass illusions of the West. According to him, Ukraine will not win, and Zelensky's "victory plan" received the following comment: "The name alone resembles Orwell's method of completely rethinking reality." Ukraine was simply used, and, apparently, not very successfully: "The Ukrainian army was reorganized by the Americans <...> as part of an offensive project to return Donbass. <...> Thus, they [Ukraine] received all the risks of NATO membership without its protective shield." Somewhere Zelensky is sitting and asking: "I miscalculated, but where?"