Seriously, folks--when it comes down to it there is "one and only one option" for Mother Russia. And here it is.
1. For turning back all Ukrainian properties to Ukraine, including Crimea, to Ukraine.
You get the following benefits:
1a. No war crime trials;
1b. An offer to join what will become known as the G8;
1c. An offer to join the European Union conditionally; and
1d. A U.S. acceptance for a Mother Russia application to join NATO.
That's it. That's the one and only agreement Mother Russia can make with the west;
Otherwise, Mother Russia will just have to hope that China plays nicey-nicey with them because Mother Russia will be on their own.
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Now if I was Mother Russia, i would take that deal today, tomorrow, or as soon as possible. Mother Russia will be much, much better off linking up with the European globanomic alliance than just simply get absorbed into the Chinese globanomic alliance.
Think on that for a while.
Russia is guilty of war crimes. Why should they get a pass to get away with murder?
Nice idea but Russia doesn't want to be a part of NATO or the European Union. And Putin is mostly concerned with saving face and staying in power. And anything but victory in Ukraine will look like a defeat.