Concerning “The” Ukraine.
What I believe will happen, or at least should be considered is...those regions under contention should be declared independent-per the prior agreement that was dissolved and ignored-Minsk Agreement.
I do not think that “The” Ukraine will agree to that, AND, I doubt that Russia will agree to that.
The sad part is that whatever is the settlement “The” Ukraine will lose territory to re-establish a type of contentious peace. If that is agreed upon, they will continue to shell each other across the newly established borders and the fight continues.
The ultimate result worldwide is that the US Dollar will no longer be the benchmark it once was and that countries will move to shove the importance of USA involvement in world affairs away.
The USA will become the new socialist country the new wave hookers in DC have been seeking for years or since WW2. The USA will become isolated.
The regions currently "under contention" include vast portions of Ukraine that had nothing to do with the Minsk Agreements, but that Russia took and annexed anyway. And all of the regions currently under contention were protected as inviolate Ukrainian territory under the Budapest Agreements, which were signed freely back in 1993 by Russia.