I very much agree, I just can’t see how either Ukraine or Europe could ever swallow this deal. There’s simply no way to spin it as some kind of a win, and that makes it politically impossible. They’d have to own up to their own people that last three and a half years were all for nothing, and that it would’ve been far more rational to have taken the Istanbul deal at the very start of the war. The problem of course is that it can only get worse from here on out, so they may be able to delay the outcome by a few months, but after that they’ll be right back where they are now, except the US will have walked away by then.