Plausable, but I will add that the peace deal will allow Putin to keep some areas that he now controls so that he can claim that he was just trying to save the citizens of those regions from atrocities at the hands of the Ukrainians. Possibly as far east as the Dnieper river.
There will never be any peace deal whereby Russia is allowed to keep one inch of Ukrainian land — except for possibly the DPR/LPR statelets as they existed before February 24. Crimea is the wild card.
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All the folks who were pro Russia sycophants before the war can ESAD. Ditto the ones after the war started.
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