You’ve got everything that doesn’t matter figured out. Putin is pressing forward, completing his plan. When he’s ready to stop, he’ll stop, unless his current offer or something close enough to his offer is accepted.
Or, someone stops him. If NATO/US could stop him they would have.
Lol, NATO isn’t interested in joining the war with our Air Forces and Navies, and armies, it looks like Putin has fallen very short of his original plan and will have to settle for what he can get out of his debacle.
At this point it looks like an independent Ukraine will still exist when this is over.
NATO has benefited greatly from this war and is much stronger and better situated than 4 years ago, and getting stronger every month, which of course benefits us in the Pacific.