The most likely path to the end of this War is becoming more clear to me now. So long as China remains neutral, the Russian intelligentsia, the military and the people of Russia will end this war, and rather quickly. Who knows what excuses will be offered. Credit will rightfully belong to the people of Ukraine. This war cannot last much longer despite predictions of it dragging on for years or months. This, finally, is the end of the road for Putin.
Were there no internet and 24-7 live coverage, Kyiv becoming another Allepo or Grozny would be far more probable. Of course there was no internet in '56 and '68! I was in Vienna in '57, and I remember both those uprisings well. In the mid 1990's, while in Prague, I intended to place a pebble on Jan Palach's grave but stupidly got lost in the massive Jewish sector as the gates were closing. Though the '56 and '68 uprisings were attempts to get out from under the Russian Thumb, superficially similar to 2014 in Ukraine, the results were far different. Although there may be a few similarities between now and the '56 and '68 uprisings, the present War is fundamentally very different.
