The biggest villain in this whole unholy mess is not Russia but the military industrial complex, one of the great cancers on our world and who benefit more the worse their behavior gets, to all of our detriment, deliberately stymieing peace and stability for war and chaos as a permanent business model.
- As I post this it looks like Ukraine are pledging not to join NATO, so its possible the war is very nearly over. The military industrial complex will be very happy with this outcome, as they now have their global bad guy back in place and will use this conflict to sell tons more weapons to all the ex-Soviet countries that are already in NATO