NATO’s transition to a longer-term commitment to support Ukraine could eventually push Moscow to a peace agreement, where Russia realize “that they cannot win the war,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on April 3 ahead of the NATO meeting in Brussels.
They will simply try again later. Their economy is in full military mode, and they’ve become ideologically focused on Ukraine as an existential matter. I’m not happy to think that our best chance at meaningful peace is regime change.