Scott you've been one of the few voices of sanity throughout this stupid war.
You are right, and well informed as far as I can see. It is all over in Ukraine.
If it is any consolation, it looks like Russia is willing to put back what it took away, they've been busy rebuilding, though obviously lives lost and pain caused can never be put back or repaired, at least folk voicing concerns that IMF will move in now might stop worrying about that.
If we are realistic, we should be questioning the future of NATO, all it does now is waste precious energy, and cause trouble in countries that really just want peace, imho.
What we need to get back to, is understanding the energy problem that the war in Ukraine exposed, and how to fix that.
This would give us truly sustainable peace, by removing the energy insecurity.
The war was a very stupid reaction to that, which even masked that this is the real problem, that we just managed through, by most of Europe muddling by on energy from some much scarcer and more expensive sources.
But it's been economically very damaging to the whole of Europe, including UK my home country, which is still part of Europe geographically so like it or not politically, it affects us just as much as anywhere else in Europe, like Germany or France, we've all taken a beating economically, due to the underlying scarcity of energy.
I've been trying not to get dragged into the quagmire of talking about the war, which to me is a symptom of the real problem I see, which is energy scarcity, underlying all things, but sometimes, when we hear or see the more outrageous / dangerous / extreme / damaging talk going on by folk who seem actually oblivious to the propaganda, we have to say something, to try to stop escalation, but then personally I feel like I am being drawn away from the source, which is the energy problem. Fix this and we never need to worry about war again. Fix this and we will really have sustainable peace.