“ Or they are still negotiating and holding back while the negotiations are still taking place.”
How about it’s a decoy and while everyone is wondering what’s going on, Russia is slowly picking away territory. Since NATO won’t get involved, there really is no rush. And as long as the price of oil keeps rising, Russia will be able to fund the war. If Biden said, tomorrow we reopen Keystone and resume domestic oil and gas production, the war ends tomorrow.
That's the long and short of it. And he'd be a hero, maybe even save his party from humiliation in November. But he won't...