I mean, this is true that the offramp was always going to be Russia keeping Crimea and the Donbas, and Ukraine getting some kind of security guarantees that fall short of NATO membership. Unfortunately we took the stupidest, most deadly, most costly way to get to this conclusion.

i wonder if this will fall on deaf ears considering other much longer disinformation campaigns also have overwhelming evidence but it’s still largley ignored by most in the west. ie gaza, china, etc.