I would say Biden-Blinken-Nuland cabal managed to wreck Ukraine so thoroughly that any Russian military operation without their "help" probably would've amounted already to much less atrocious results.

But no, Dem Party (and British) neocons were content with kicking the can named Ukraine down the road to darkness. Almost exactly two years ago Mark Alexander Milley, the then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wisely proposed immediate peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. Russian forces had just surrendered the great chunk of occupied Ukrainian lands in Kharkov and Kherson regions; despite the claim of annexation of four Ukrainian regions into Russia proper, it was crystal clear that Russian army got into significant disarray. His proposal was immediately dismissed.

But nothing spectacular has been gained for two subsequent years, except, of course, atrocious levels of destruction and corruption inside Ukraine. Despite probably biggest infusions of cash, materiel, and other equipment in all written history of mankind, Ukraine continues to cede its territory to Russia in Donbass with ever-quickening pace.

I realized as early as then, in late 2022, when Zelensky signed a decree forbidding to himself peace talks with Russia, that Dems have had a clear plan to drag all this bloodshow till elections and, according to their wishes, even into the second Biden’s term.

Surprise, motherf*ckers, the day of reckoning came.