don't want to be dominated by russia. however, they are not capable of standing up to a russian major intervention with over 80 battalions, marines coming in from the south. ukrainians do not have a credible air defense system, they really don't have an air force, they don't have much of armored capability. they cannot focus on redirections at the same time. so if putin decides to go all out invasion, he will get ukraine in under 90 days, but it will be a catastrophe for him. so the only way out is diplomacy. i think macron's been muddling the situation. the normandy conversations, excluding the u.s. and great britain. germany has gone moot, blinken and biden and the administration are doing the best they can to pull together a deterrent sense to stop putin from carrying out military operations.