I disagree. Putin doesn’t need the minerals nor the land, He has already won what he wanted: the beginning of the end of the Dollar hegemony. BRICS, Middle East, they all now realise they need an alternative asap. De door is now wide open to the multi-polar world.

Ukrainians too are now slowly realising that the US doesn’t mind this war costing them literally to their last Ukrainian standing. So a pyrrhic victory at best but even then highly unlikely.

Hence the now proposed Demilitarized Zone >

http://johnhelmer.net/the-ukrainain-demilitarized-zone-negotiations-start-at-dead-end/

would effectively end the hostilities. And the Normandy format excludes the US, the main long-term instigator of unrest in the region (read RAND) . A big win for all of us in Europe that now should take huge steps to quickly leave US led NATO before it sucks us into even worse. > https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202301/1283655.shtml