Two weeks into this invasion I remember reading about an imminent negotiated settlement. Then it vanished down the memory hole as the neocons entered the scene and the arms starting flowing to Ukraine. The 99-year old Henry Kissinger suggested later on at Davos that a negotiated settlement could easily be achieved, and the globalists basically snickered at the poor old man.
The NWO globalists might end up getting a total nuclear war for their efforts to reset us. The only problem is there won’t be anything left to reset, and the living will very much envy the dead. This road they’re taking is insane.
That opportunity went away when Putin's troops decided raping and murdering civilians in Bucha and Irpin was a good idea.
Once the massacres were discovered there was no room for a simple negotiation.
At this point after Russia had kidnapped thousands of Ukrainians and their children, and killed and abused many civilians it will be hard to negotiate any end to the fighting.