The US Secretary of the Army, Daniel Driscoll, recently delivered to the Ukrainian government a 28-point proposed agreement for cessation of hostilities and at least some promise of enduring peace between Russia and Ukraine.

First: You need to state clearly: Russia is the invading force and Russia is at fault.

We also have to say The American government has finally come to a realistic assessment that there is no plausible argument that, given its military situation, Ukraine is going to be able to dislocate all Russians from its claimed territory.

And that brings us back to the 28-point agreement and political realism:

Realism means that sometimes that the best that you can achieve is the least-worst option. And let’s be honest, that’s what we’re facing here.

Short of NATO going to war with a nuclear-powered Russia, what has been proposed here is pretty much where any intelligent person knew this was going to have to end. And honestly, we knew this at the beginning.

We should be hoping that the war does, in fact, end and praying for that end.