“At a private dinner during the Munich Security Conference, one of the European leaders asked me what it means when they say that Ukraine is not losing. And I replied that it means Ukraine is losing,” he said. “It’s like in football: no one tells the team that our goal is not to lose, because that’s what losing is. You can’t win a war with one hand tied behind your back, and that’s how Ukraine is fighting now.” Ash pointed out that two key influential figures in world politics, US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, are fearful and reluctant to escalate the situation and are…