Ukraine and Western media will still claim victory because “Russia did not conquer all of Ukraine and genocide all of Ukrainians”. There will be no reflection on failures or missed opportunities for an earlier peace.
At this point I can’t see how it’s going to be anything other than that. Russia’s in too deep now to stop, and they’ve already won the economic war. So, there’s really nothing the west can do at this point to reverse the situation.
I suspect the ‘peace deal’ will eventually look remarkably like a ‘complete unconditional surrender’…
Ukraine and Western media will still claim victory because “Russia did not conquer all of Ukraine and genocide all of Ukrainians”. There will be no reflection on failures or missed opportunities for an earlier peace.
At this point I can’t see how it’s going to be anything other than that. Russia’s in too deep now to stop, and they’ve already won the economic war. So, there’s really nothing the west can do at this point to reverse the situation.