Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,

He finally accepts the impossibility of restoring Ukraine's pre-2014 borders...

Zelensky recently told ABC News that "Victory, to my mind, Putin's goal is to occupy Ukraine, this is to destroy us, occupy, and did he occupy it?...He didn't occupy us, we win, and I think so, because we have our country."

This is a far cry from the mantra that he's chanted almost daily for the past 3,5 years since the special operation began about restoring his country's pre-2014 borders.

Quite clearly, he's hinting that he'll accept an end to the conflict that doesn't achieve that aim, thus going with the political flow.

About that, while Trump might escalate US involvement for the purpose of coercing Putin into freezing the conflict without obtaining any of his stated goals therein, he doesn't have any illusions about Ukraine restoring its pre-2014 borders.