I wish peace talks succeeded too. I don’t like the war, I just think one winner is a better outcome than the other, and it’s not the one who consistently undermined the peace talks.

There’s nothing cowardly about having compassion, the war is a ridiculous waste of human life. I am simply saying that there are ways of rating outcomes beyond the (correctly prioritized) criteria of “is there a war or not?”

Edit: ps it wasn’t just a post Soviet issue. Look up Operation Bloodstone