If the United States and Europe are strong, if they don’t buy Russian oil and gas, if people stand by the principles they declare, and if pressure on Russia is strong and clear – if all these things work properly, the war will end as quickly as possible.
Otherwise, it will last longer than we estimate. Normal people really want it to end tomorrow – or yesterday, as we say. But no matter what, Russia doesn’t have enough power to occupy us. It simply doesn’t.
From an interview with Gordon Repinski (2/2).