The Western Neo-Imperialists knew it was over the moment they received word of the first missile launch. Everything they did was based on warmongering and threats other psychological warfare, and in no way on any sort of armed confrontation whatsoever.

Zelensky is at long last realizing what a ant he was in all this and is now trying his best to avoid getting stomped on by one of the elephants. The penny finally dropped when his own tribe suggested it was time to wrap this up. Maybe the fog caused by his ego has finally cleared up enough for him to also understand that the Western media's "Ukraine, ride or die!" is empty propaganda, and was all along.