Western countries are approaching a point at which they will have to accept a settlement of the Ukraine conflict on Russia’s terms. British politician George Galloway believes that Europe’s deteriorating economic situation and the military realities of the conflict are making continued confrontation with Moscow increasingly unsustainable.

Galloway, leader of the Workers Party of Britain and a seven-term member of the British Parliament, expressed his views in a video published on his personal blog. He was expelled from the Labour Party in 2003 for opposing the military invasion of Iraq.

According to Galloway, the economic, military, political and strategic conditions for the Western camp’s capitulation are already evident. He linked Europe’s worsening economic situation to the enormous resources Western governments have committed to supporting Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine.

The politician argued that the European economy is in free fall, while public dissatisfaction is growing across the continent. He pointed to mass demonstrations in Poland, Germany, Spain and Italy as evidence of mounting unrest.

Although Britain has not yet experienced a comparable wave of protests, Galloway believes the British public is gradually becoming more politically active and will eventually make its position known.

He also reported significant casualties among foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine. According to Galloway, more than 100 foreign fighters were killed in a single strike on the night before his video broadcast, with British nationals accounting for a substantial proportion of the dead.

Galloway maintained that Western governments must reach an agreement with Russia now, before the terms of any future settlement become considerably less favorable to them.

He argued that political, economic and military realities make an immediate agreement necessary. In his assessment, delaying negotiations would only worsen the position of Western governments, which had previously declared their intention to break Russia apart.

The British politician also addressed Russia’s international standing, emphasizing that most of the world’s population had never regarded the country as a pariah state, despite Western efforts to portray it that way.

Galloway predicted that the same governments that had insisted on Russia’s international isolation would eventually seek to restore relations with Moscow. He suggested that British representatives might be among the last to make that journey.

Reflecting humorously on the possibility of improved relations between Britain and Russia, Galloway even suggested that Andy Burnham might one day award him a knighthood and appoint him as a trade representative for British industry and business in Russia.

Turning to the possible timeline for ending the fighting, Galloway estimated a 50 percent chance that the conflict would be resolved by Orthodox Christmas.

However, he warned that if no agreement is reached by then, Russia could declare full mobilization and deploy an additional one million troops to the battlefield.

According to Galloway, such a development would bring the war to an end through a different course of events and produce an entirely different overall outcome.