It shouldn't even have gotten down to this, but for the moronic doggedness of Biden-Blinken-Nuland administration.

Ukraine in its modern dismal state is, and will continue to be, a monstrous mess produced jointly by the Western and Eastern collaborators.

The time has finally come for the Ukraine war (including the civil conflict phases in 2014 and then 2016–22) to be evaluated as yet another (in the mien of Robert McNamara) ‘tragic miscalculation’, where ‘staggering variety and complexity’ gracefully sings along with melancholy strings of ‘the geopolitical intentions of our adversaries’ which the US turned out unable to comprehend.