"Teetering [on] the brink" is overdrawn. I'm not aware of any analysis that suggests that the Ukrainian side is on the verge of collapse. My own sense is tha

"Teetering [on] the brink" is overdrawn. I'm not aware of any analysis that suggests that the Ukrainian side is on the verge of collapse. My own sense is tha the conflict is long past the point where it can be meaningfully won by either side. The best either can hope for is an outcome that can be presented internally as "not losing". Any attempt to portray the outcome as substantially stronger than that will be a matter of spin and rhetoric.