I think that depends a lot on what victory means. The original intent appeared to be to bring Ukraine back into Russia's sphere of influence which doesn't seem to be near the case. However, Putin could still keep Eastern Ukraine and cause enough internal unrest to keep it out of the EU and NATO.

There's quite a few Discord alternatives. IMO Stoat and especially Fluxer are pretty discord-like. Fluxer is pretty new and still working out kinks. They support (Stoat) or will support (Fluxer) self-hosting and Fluxer will implement (limited) E2EE. I have heard of other alternatives like Root, TeamSpeak, Mumble but cannot speak to them.

Yeah it was pitched to him. We know Lindsey coached Israel on how to sell the war to Trump. But he did ultimately agree to it and he's the commander-in-chief so its ultimately his responsibility. No other president agreed to this stupidity.

CEOs continue to brown nose him despite his tariffs being bad for business as he at the least will rubber stamp their mergers and other anti-consumer policies.

Nobody is sending their soldiers to die for his impulsive, poorly thought out war. especially after he has spent years antagonizing allies.