I wish you were right but I think Putin will just level Ukraine with illegal weapons that may be outdated but can vaporize a human being (vacuum bombs) and do horrific damage (cluster bombs) to the physical infrastructure of what was a beautiful city.

Putin is like Trump, IMO, he's demented. He won't stop until he wipes them out. He doesn't care about anything else now. They made him look bad--he won't stand for that.

It doesn't matter if he's clumsy, outdated and ill prepared--he will use force to overcome those disadvantages. No one has said "no" to him before--he doesn't know anything but brute force to combat the Ukrainian resistance. He will not stop until someone stops him. By then, Ukraine will be history.