It is very precisely regulated so that to lengthen it. Each and every time during the tenure of senile Biden and his admin, when a chance opened to cease the hostilities, some provocation occurred, and the bloodbath resumed. I faintly hope that at least somebody in the West will be jailed for this, preferably Nuland or, even better, Blinken. The latter is likely the smartest of them all and hence the most complicit.
Much as I despise the Gremlin in the Kremlin and his Zombies, I would say any time without hesitation: Biden-Blinken-Nuland’s 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.
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 there in Eastern Europe till elections and, according to their wishes, even into the second Biden’s term. At the very least, motherf*ckers got their day of reckoning, but still it’s not sufficient. For example, Lira’s blood cries out to Heaven for vengeance no less loudly than of widely publicized Bucha or Mariupol victims.