Ukraine: How might the war end? Five scenarios (BBC )
The BBC piece provides 5 scenarios - and avoids the 6th. Short War; Long war; European War; Diplomatic solution; Putin ouster- but ignores the possibility of WW3.

Their conclusion is hopeful: "These scenarios are not mutually exclusive - some of each could combine to produce different outcomes. But however this conflict plays out, the world has changed. It will not return to the status quo ante. Russia's relationship with the outside world will be different. European attitudes to security will be transformed. And the liberal, international rules-based order might just have rediscovered what it was for in the first place."

Personally, I don't think there is any sugarcoat for this: Europe is at war, and as long as Putin is in place, peace is unlikely. What say y'all?

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich