All this bloodshed and misery and the US will still end up losing the fight. Russia had a reasonable demand to not have NATO on its doorstep. Finland and Sweden (until just recently) were examples of the fact that Russia isn’t willing to attack a neutral nation.

That’s it, at the beginning of the war, Blinken could’ve just offered Ukraine’s neutrality (and possibly guaranteed independent protections for Donetsk and Luhansk) in exchange for Russia paying reparations. That would’ve been reasonable, but the US doesn’t do anything reasonable.

What's most interesting about articles like this is that this is not some leftist alternative media publication or some fringe pro-Russia pundit, it's a mainstream conservative (though they claim they are not neocons but "realists") US imperialist think tank that has for decades been deeply embedded into the US foreign policy establishment, founded by Nixon and formerly chaired by war criminal Henry Kissinger.

It shows the clear cracks in the imperialist state that there is now this deepening divide between the current leadership of completely fanatical neocons like Blinken and Nuland who are growing increasingly detached from reality and the "old guard" establishment who still have some semblance of sense and are trying desperately but futilely to steer the ship of empire away from the abyss it is sailing into.