It would seem that the best chance of ending this war will happen shortly as the ground freezes and the Russians launch their expected counter offensive. For all of the propaganda, Russian economic retaliation has brought Europe to its knees, the continued support for Zelensky has drained both Europe and the US of massive amounts of money and military equipment and both are running out of money and military hardware.
There is a phenomenon at play here, the combined NATO countries are guilty of believing their own bullsh*t. Russia will go broke in a short time, the economic sanction will bring them to their knees, NATO will overpower them and intimidate Russia, it all sounds like something from Alice In Wonderland.
The Minsk agreement was never going to be honoured, it was used to buy time so that the NATO countries could pump Ukraine full of military hardware to invade Russia. It has to be an act of stupidity from European politicians to think that the Russians were just going to sit back as the neo nazis ethnically cleansed the Donbass of Russian speaking Ukrainians, after 8 years of constant attacks on civilians, they ran out of patience and responded.
The real action is the Goebbels Elite (whoops, I mean the GLOBAL elite) want access and control of Russia's energy and mineral resources like they almost succeeded in getting under Yeltsin and they are more than willing to sacrifice as many Ukrainians as necessary to get that control.
Europe is expendable, people can live and die in the freezing cold with no power or food, as long as they can get what they want.
Look at the contrast, Russian supermarkets have full shelves, they can turn on the lights at home any time they like, can buy fuel for their cars, have viable heating in the winter and it all can be blamed on Vladimir Putin who has acted to protect his own people. One can only wonder why European leaders see their own population as expendable.