@glitterbag,
You do realize the war could have been over, perhaps never started, long ago right? Either that or you are decrepit!
In order to get a checkmate to Putin and the mountain of gas in Ukraine we wanted the war we were just not sure how it would play out but as soon as the web hype train took off all our fangs went out!
We wanted the war because we want problem Putin out and we have been pretty effective at that!
The future problem is the imponderables that come after Putin as Russian intellectuals wont fall for another one! They might well simulate to play by the book after Putin but from now on I wouldn't trust Russia for any thing whatsoever!
On the great scheme of things since the 90's there were a couple of chances to bring Russia to Europe and not to East...our think tanks made sure that is totally off the charts permanently...congratz and please downvote further!