The nucleus of the situation is Minsk II and none of these loudmouths have the slightest idea what it is. And they don’t care. And now having ignored Minsk II, as a result of the belligerent treachery of the US state dept., they are watching Russia enforce those term militarily and there is nothing that can be done to stop that.
The destruction of Minsk II will be a watershed moment for the World Police. Unipolar is all over and it should be.
Actually, MalPearce handled your Minsk concern well:
“1. The problem with Minsk 1 is the Germans and French pushed Ukraine into signing a really bad deal because they just wanted the problem to go away.
In your analogy, this’d be like Canada offering to broker a peace deal between Mexico and the USA, and Canada telling Washington to take all the guns away from all the Texans because Texans with guns is “poking the Beano Bear”.