Putin desperately needs a couple of years of peace to regroup and rearm. Also, a “peace” would bring back trade and drop sanctions. He’s on his heels militarily and economically. Sure, he can keep going like this, but the stalemate is draining the country’s men and rubles.

Makes me so goddamned mad that we (the US) could have easily kicked Putin’s ankles out from under him if we had gone whole hog in supporting Ukraine. This should have been over a year or more ago.