I’d have to agree that seems to be a pretty safe bet.
This situation does not lend itself to negotiation, but then
Trump supports it.
I don’t like seeing the Ukraine diced up, because it clearly
lets Russia benefit from it’s invasion and the hundreds of
thousands who died.
Giving up land for peace to Putin is not going to work.
This is like negotiating with a home-invader who attacked your wife and you in your bedroom, but after you chased him out, is now camping in your kitchen and demands that you cede the kitchen to him.
Ukraine getting diced up would be “ok” if Putin really meant to not go further. But we’ve seen that he means to swallow all of Ukraine - or even at the least all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper. Negotiations can’t work