Putin pulls out all the stops to allow for a massive, continued campaign. Yet the EU and the US are slowly letting Ukraine bleed dry. There hasn’t been a conflict in recent history that was both as black-and-white, with a clear aggressor and a clear victim of agression, and as close as Russia’s invasion. And even with those near-perfect conditions, which would allow for decisive action from the West, they still would rather freeze the conflict, because that’s the more opportunistic thing to do.