It’s ugly and can get uglier. Vladimir Putin isn’t going to cease anytime soon. You don’t launch a full-scale navy assault on another nation and two days later say, “Oh, I believe I’ve made my level,” and go home. He was by no means fascinated by negotiations, he was by no means open to argument. He set this in motion and could comply with it via the imagined victory level in his head.
He has shocked the West. He wished to shock the West.
