Consent manufacturing for this conflict has been happening for 4 generations. The only off ramp would be for Russia to have another Boris Yelstin for president that would let the west pillage the country essentially for free. Russian peace with the west meant people were so emmiserated that life expectancy collapsed.

I'm a little older. I watched the collapse and subsequent looting of the USSR as it happened. I still have a couple connections with some of its refugees, and even in America everyone's lives from at least my grandparents on has been shaped by limited political possibilities because so many resources go into preparing the military for war with Russia (and now China too). People are dying in the streets here but the military grows.

Russia intervening in what certainly appears to be a genocide in Ukraine (based on western reporting, even if they never call it that), hasn't changed anything. Also, it's not like Sweden's NATO membership really changes anything either.