No secret as to how to end Ukraine conflict.

 RUSSIA'S OBJECTIVES ARE CLEAR AND UNCHANGED

EVERY DAY UKRAINE'S FUTURE BECOMES DIMMER

We continually hear that Trump and others are disappointed that Putin does not agree to a ceasefire or is willing to end the conflict in Ukraine. It seems they are mystified as to what it will take to end this conflict. The reality is that they still believe they can prevail in this conflict even though Ukraine is destined to become a shadow of a country that it could have been without this conflict.

Russia's objectives are as clear today as they were in the months leading up to conflict, no NATO in Ukraine on its eastern border, no NATO troops in Ukraine, human rights guarantees for the Russian population and Ukraine a neutral, not militarily aligned country.. An agreement on those issues could have preserved Ukraine's territorial boundaries, with the exception of Crimea, 3 years ago. No one has yet to agree to those objectives, not Ukraine, not NATO and not the U.S. 

Trump and other have acknowledged that NATO membership could be negotiated, understanding that the U.S. would never allow a foreign military alignment in Canada or Mexico. Most American's are not that objective and their answer has been consistently, FU, Russia cannot make such demands. 

So the fighting goes on, Russia in the beginning, was disorganized and not very effective, they hoped that a show of force would convince Ukraine to accept its proposals and within weeks it appeared that a settlement had been reached, but Boris Johnson, we can assume, representing NATO convinced Ukraine to hold firm. Russia then retreated from areas that it felt it could not at that time defend and the rest is history. They have since increased their military, expanded production and are now a well honed fighting machine, far more formidable than when this began.

Russia, rather than invade deep into Ukraine have been able to keep the fighting close to their border. While many claim this is an indication of weakness, it is part of a strategy to decimate Ukraines fighting force and also force a long logistic route for Ukraine and for a possible NATO force. Russia would like to fight this battle on the eastern part of Ukraine, which was to their advantage in all previous wars in their history. 

This war could be ended quickly, if Russia's demands are agreed to, at present that is not the case. Trump's negotiations are dead after the using of negotiations as a cover for the drone attack on their strategic bombers. Russia is not going to agree to a situation with NATO troops in western Ukraine, with a ceasefire, that allow Ukraine to rearm and reorganize. At present it looks like this war will continue until Ukraine is totally exhausted and begs for mercy.

While the Europeans and Lindsey Graham threaten and dream of a massive European army, they do not have the internal will or resources to accomplish any of this. Trump does not support U.S. direct involvement with war with Russia. Proposed sanctions on China, India and Brazil and others will no doubt damage the U.S. and Europe more than Russia. These countries can not submit to such intimidation from the U.S. 

In the meantime, Ukraine is suffering terribly and is becoming smaller. It is likely to eventually lose Odessa, which will make Ukraine a dependent and third world country for decades to come. Dependent on the very engineers of this catastrophe, which will no longer see any value in supporting Ukraine.