Putin could end this, but he's not the man he used to be. He was known to be rational with his decisions, but i can't see any rationality here. I guess that ongoing isolation in the fear of SARS-CoV-2 messed with his brain.
I feel sorry for everyone involved and having to suffer, regardless of nationality. This war is completely unnecessary. It's the result of a couple of complex happenings, from the pandemic, to various (also inter-) national political parties, economic forces and their shared weakness of corruption, and not to forget: Foreign influential agendas carried out over the course of years.
Sanity seems to become even more scarce than Bitcoin. (To stay a wee little bit on topic.)
Yeah, to be honest this whole situation is just plain baffling. It really doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
I think this is because things are not exactly as they seem. Same as with the pandemic.
Occam's razor applies here.