[FreeReign]

... I think Russia got involved in the Ukraine mostly because of bitter internal Eastern European politics. Probably they’d be happy to have an excuse to kind of back out of it.

No. Putin wants to control Ukraine.

[livius]

The Ukraine has always been difficult. The plus side for Russia is pretty limited and this is more of a nationalist conflict than anything else. I think the Russians would be happy with a dignified exit, which we could arrange. And that might improve the Ukrainian future too.