Primary objective accomplished by the US and it's vassals, although they expected more losses from the Russian side. Still a resounding victory despite the unfortunate setback.
They don't really benefit from dead Russian soldiers, what they were really hoping for was to destroy Russian society and its economy and in the process remove Putin from power... which was a total failure.
In fact it has all made Russia so much more powerful, and indeed forced them to move closer to China which has made China more powerful and independent too and now the BRICS countries are becoming a threat as well... and all while the EU has been massively weakened by making them give up cheap energy and raw materials they were getting from Russia, and to throw their meager military potential behind Kiev to try to break the Russian military and now that it is all gone they barely scratched the outer layer.
They got what they wanted, but now they have it... they don't seem to be liking it as much as they thought they would.
Remember at the start of the conflict when they were confident, they said no to any talks and it will all be decided on the battlefield.
It should have been easy, if you listen to Kiev they have been fighting Russians since 2014... but their definition of a Russian is anyone who speaks Russians including Ukrainians.
With talk of another mass mobilization across Ukraine and zelensky looking at attacking Transnistria to not only capture warehouses full of soviet arms but also to restore Moldovan territory which in turn would allow Moldova to join NATO,
The locals can simply burn those warehouses to the ground after removing any arms they might want to use to defend themselves with first.
If Kiev did this of course all power and water and food resources in Ukraine can be targeted to make their lives miserable this coming winter, and of course there is always that American embassy that can be destroyed... Zelensky wouldn't attack Moldovan territory without US permission.
About a year ago i posted for the last time and said I would be back in 12 months as the conflict had turned into a stalemate and not much would change so no point in beating a dead horse, well as suspected I was correct.
Stalemate... many western donors have said they will supply no more military material... including Poland and Germany and Finland. The nazis invaded a piece of Russia and are trapped and are being slowly ground down to dust. Across the rest of the front line they are being walked steadily backwards out of the fortified places they built over the last decade and out into open ground they wont be able to defend at all.
Yeah... that is a stalemate all right... NOT.
But why wait another 12 months... after the election results in the US are known might be a good time to pop back maybe... or not.