© Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesVladimir Zelensky
In particular, if that war could have been avoided or stopped very quickly and on advantageous terms, but instead you - listening to very false friends -
decided to fight on until your country was devastated. And you are also realizing that you have been gambling with your own future as well. That is the key question in Vladimir Zelensky's life now, whether he can admit it to himself or not.
In such a grim scenario, there are three basic options:
Number one, the sane option: you can face reality and start negotiations to end the war, knowing that you will have to largely accept the terms of your opponent (because remember,
you are losing, and also Russian President Vladimir Putin has just reiterated in an interview with the primetime
'60 Minutes' program that
Moscow will only accept an "outcome in its favor" and based "on the realities" that over two years of fighting have produced).
Or option two, the manic one: you can choose reality denial and keep fighting as if you could still win, thereby damaging your country even more and making sure that, in the end, it will
still lose but on even worse terms.Or, finally, option three, the delusional one: you can do what most weak characters do most of the time and try to square the circle by pretending there is a way to have it both ways, that is,
to stave off defeat while somehow magically ending the war, or at least slowing it down.
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