>>17527251All of those regions have some sort of compromise and there could have been compromise on Donbass as well; in fact there was a solid compromise before Maidan but it was destroyed by the interim goverment which then tried to violently supress people who demanded their rights back. Poroshenko/Zelenski refused even such basic level minority rights as right to use regional language when dealing with the state or right to buy books without state control. Its clear that they were ordered to pursue an aggressive stance when dealing with Russia because someone wanted the conflict.
If Putin was a warmongering idiot, he would have conquered all of Ukraine long time ago at the height of Donbass crisis in 2015, before Americans turned ZSU into combat capable force. Unfortunately he is just an idiot. Its clear that the war was orchestrated so that someone can profit from it. And that someone certainly isnt Russia, the Ukraine or the EU. Putin got outplayed by those who profit from the conflict, which is pretty much every major power outside of European continent (US, PRC, India).
