Fiona Hill

Well, I mean, I do hope it ends, you know, with a ceasefire and a negotiated solution, but it has to be with Russia compromising on something.

And that's not where we are right now.

Most wars always end in that way.

I mean, nobody's ever happy.

Yeah, because, I mean, look, the thing is that for Ukraine right now, anything is a compromise at its expense, right?

Yeah.

Fast devastation, unbelievable casualty rates.

Yeah.

biggest refugee crisis since World War II.

Russia's just said, sorry, this is our territories, not just Crimea.

I think there could have been a negotiation over that.

But, you know, Donetsk and Luhansk, I mean, we've got all kinds of formulas we've had all the way through history of, you know, putting things under a kind of guardianship, receivership of territory, the United Nations, all kinds of different ways of formulating that.

We could have easily been creative.

But Russia's basically saying, nope, sorry, we've taken this.

And any other negotiations, just you recognizing this for us not doing more destruction.

I mean, that is not the basis for negotiations.

And having people come and just laying those terms down is not a starting position.

I think Russia is also in a dilemma of its own making now because Putin has made it very difficult to compromise just by everything that he's said.

Now, for Ukraine, they've already won...

a great moral, political, and military victory.