But I don’t think that Putin got your memo. Z is losing day by day, life by life, as Russia grinds across Russian speaking territory that voted to secede from Ukraine and return to Russia rather than continue to suffer Z’s ethnic cleansing.
Let him have the Donbass, in accordance with the Minsk ‘treaties’. You will never get Russia to give up what they have already taken. They are used to this warfare, having repelled France, Germany, Britain, etc. etc. over the centuries – when did Russia ever threaten a western European capital? They fought Germany in WWWI, and 24 years later find themselves being invaded by them again. Yes, they controlled Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest, Sofia and other central European countries after WWII, but that provided the buffer they needed against western imperialism that they had fought against so often. It also gave Europe 46 years of peace until 1991, and a further 23 years until 2014 when the genocide started in the Donbass. 46 years of peace in Europe because of the buffer – a stunning record. Followed by 23 years of encroachment by NATO, breaking all their promises in the process, resulting in the inevitable conflict.