Ian Bremmer puts it more eloquently: Ukraine can still lose the war — but Russia can’t win > https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/20/ukraine-can-still-lose-the-war-but-russia-cant-win-ian-bremmer-says.html

U.S. military chief of staff, General Mark Milley, uses different words but comes to the same conclusion: "That means fighting is going to continue. It's going to be bloody. It's going to be hard. And at some point, both sides will either negotiate a settlement or they'll come to a military conclusion."

https://www.rferl.org/a/kyiv-allies-military-aid-russia-drone-strikes-ukraine/32427040.html

So please tell me what's the point of having more kids losing their fathers? Sentencing thousands of innocent children for life.

And yes, Putin is more than willing to negotiate. He has proven that already many times before and after the start of this war. It's the West that forced/backed Zelenski to refuse. Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet's testimony is telling. Google "Russia Ukraine Peace Deal + Israel PM Bennett". It's more than well-documented.

China has the economic clout on both Ukraine and Russia to pull a peace plan off. So, in time (Chinese are brilliantly patient) they will. I just wish it were now.

It's interesting to see the BRICS countries now stepping up and claiming their place in global affairs: Besides, China, now Brazil too is offering talks and Bolivia's PM giving a speech at the peace summit in Austria last week. We are entering a new world, one that is far more intelligent than the blunt bullying the US and their West enablers (us) have inflicted on it since WWII. Thank god, at last. Hence time to embrace it and pick up the old and much-shared economic dream of a shared and functional Eurasian continent.