While I disagree on some things you've said, we do both agree that the best outcome for the actual people living in Ukraine is peace. Unfortunately, the west has shown that they are not interested in peace, and would rather use the proxy war to bleed both Ukraine and Russia to the last citizen. See: Boris Johnson stepping in to sabotage peace talks, and Angela Merkel admitting in an interview that NATO had never intended to honor the Minsk agreements but were only using them to stall for time to allow Ukraine to militarize. This means that a peace settlement that leaves the current ukrainian puppet government in power is unacceptable to the russians, while one that removes them would obviously be unacceptable to the current ukrainian government. Never even mind the disputes over the territories Russia holds or even formally annexed. Sadly the war looks like it will continue until one side runs out of money and materiel, neither of which are in short supply for the US/NATO or Russia.