[In the Drunk Tank]

At first I thought the longer the war went on the worse it would be for Russia but there is a danger that they keep up the invasion for so long that the world eventually becomes a bit desensitised to the war and the pressure on Russia subsides. It stops dominating the news, the West reaches the limits of what they're prepared to do, and Russia consolidates the territory it occupies while keeping forces closes to Kyiv even if it doesn't manage to topple it. Then months later Ukraine eventually feel they have no other option but to accept a peace deal which recognises Crime as Russian along with all of the Donbass and enough of the South that they have a land bridge to Crimea