media gives up on the hypothesis of Russia's defeat in Ukraine

Even more interesting is the subtitle: “Putin has resisted the West's energetic efforts to push its troops back out of Ukraine and his grip on power is firm. The United States and its allies need a new strategy: containment." The latter is a significant word, also because it has so far been used in the context of the fight against Chinese activism, so much so that it has become a sort of key word, with an almost symbolic meaning, in American foreign policy towards Beijing. Maybe it's a temporal coincidence, but maybe not, the WSJ article was published on the same day that Biden met Xi Jinping, as if to define a similar approach to the two superpowers. As seen in the case of the Dragon, containment develops at various levels (military, economic-financial and political) and can be more or less aggressive, but tends to exclude open conflict. It is interesting to note that the day after the WSJ article, Foreign Affairs also reported that the time has come to redefine American foreign policy towards Ukraine, since the counteroffensive has failed and “military and economic support for Ukraine has begun to weaken in both the United States and Europe.” “Such circumstances – notes FA – require a global reassessment of the current strategy of Ukraine and its allies. This reassessment highlights an inconvenient truth: namely that Ukraine and the West are on an unsustainable path, characterized by an evident disconnection between their goals and the means available [to achieve them]."