Behauptet jedenfalls Eric Prince:
ERIK PRINCE: We need to bring that war to a close because all Ukraine is doing right now is destroying itself demographically. They’re chewing up the next generation of manpower that they really can’t replace right now.
They don't have enough manpower. The Western defense base is pathetic. And you’re not going to out-conventional war the Russian bear.
An ugly peace is better than whatever their idea of an ideal war is. Freeze the lines... Let them keep Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk.
It's not the American taxpayer's obligation to spend another hundred billion in Ukraine when there's been significant corruption and really nothing to show for it.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/02/erik_prince_on_ukraine_an_ugly_peace_is_better_than_whatever_their_idea_of_an_ideal_war_is.html