Following Woolsey, you have to start with the premise that your goal is to defeat the enemy. What if the goal and the very process of war become intermingled? Balkans, Vietnam, Syria, or Libya clearly show how difficult it is to bring back dogs of war to peaceful life, after they were tasting human flesh.
Ukrainian activists tend to seek simple solutions of grave problems rooting deep inside their country. The conflict has spilled over the borders of civil war sparked by chronic internal disturbances; Ukraine, with a great degree of cultural heterogeneity, in its pre-2014 borders could have survived only as federation. However, after Chornovil’s death that word has been anathematized. Reap what you sow, it’s harvesting time.