Russia can always end this war, remove their forces from all of Ukraine including Crimea, stop making threats at everyone who doesn’t agree with them, and then maybe we can get back to a semblance of normal.
In any case Russia no longer calls the shots in Eastern Europe and they damn well better get used to that fact.
I disagree. Russia has shown that it is willing and able to project force and level cities to the ground and that makes other countries pay attention.