As can be seen from RAND Corp. work notes, severance of geopolitical and economical ties between Russia and the EU was quite possibly the goal, not the instrument of confinement for punishment. Speaking about Ukraine… well, there will be desolation called peace in Donbass, considered as big quarantine zone of avoidance, brought to them by one acting party or another. But desolation first, peace second. In that order of relevance.

It’s about the same in every highly heterogeneous country when they say they’re bringing peace, democracy, and rules-based order.