This is brilliant, exactly what I was thinking. Knowing russians and Russia very closely, this is a very likely scenario if Russia prevails in the next few months.
Rewarding Russia now is bringing much more war very soon. Unfortunately there is a disagreement on this fact even between well-intended people who genuinely want peace.
I am on the contrary quite comforted by this. Easier to make sense of things, tackle or accept things that don't make sense.
Lots of difficulties behind, making current and future ones seem manageable.
Growing old is not that bad.