Retired Air Marshal of the Royal Air Force, former Director General of the Defense Academy and Director General of the Joint Force Development Strategic Command Edward Stringer has said that the Russian armed forces could be destroyed and the war could be over by Christmas. He said this in a comment to Sky News.
"I don't see the Russians being able to rebuild their armed forces to take the initiative again and go on the offensive again... So now we're watching how it develops on the ground, and hopefully Zelenskiy will be in a position where he can start negotiations on favorable terms and perhaps even defeating the entire Russian invasion of his country,” Stringer said.
He noted that all conflicts end with negotiations, but it is necessary to calibrate how much it is necessary to keep channels open and how much Putin is allowed to think that he is still part of the family of nations.
"I hate to be the person who says it's going to be over by Christmas, but it's possible now that the collapse of the Russian military could happen ... it's a good 30-40%, and it calls into question the future of Putin, Putinism, and the West is now very much thinking about what the world looks like after Putin," he summarized.
