Including US Troops ?
Don’t think so……
The only way Ukraine will regain their pre-2014 borders is with NATO boots on the ground. And by NATO, we all understand that these forces would primarily be Americans.
And introducing Americans into the battlefield means Russia will likely introduce tactical nukes into the battlefield to be used as they were designed and planned.
People who say Russia would never use nukes forget that this was precisely the conflict that Russian military doctrine expressly calls for a nuclear "escalate to de-escalate" response.
NATO combat troops in Ukraine is a major escalation but without this, we are only prolonging the inevitable. We can give Ukraine all the military hardware they ask for but what we can't give them are more Ukrainians. It's simple math. They'll run out of soldiers long before Russia does.
The choices will soon be stark. Cut a deal with Putin or send U.S. forces to face a modern, battle-hardened army in their own backyard, something we haven't had to do for a long time.