Russia laid out its terms at the outset. The USA-NATO powers rejected them. They all play the geo-political power game chess board, to control the centre of Eurasian landmass. In some views this enables global domination. Ukrainian people are pawns, to be sacrificed, “down to the last Ukranian”. It is all folly, part of one big ball of wax, a giant turd-berg of global conflict for resources, but will help collapse industrial civilisation faster, and may extinct us.