The article is a dream of how to save face.
In short: Ukraine is on the path to loose, it is loosing. Current levels of western support is not sufficient. Population support is dwindling.
Let’s save face by freezing conflict at current lines.
The article completely dismisses official Russian position, that is glossed over in western news sources in the 1st place: Ukraine must accept new Russian territory, withdraw its troops from this territory.
Article called current Russian position as maximalist, but when announced it was pointed out that it is actually a minimalist position. Putin stated directly that as Russia advances on the ground, conditions will change.
The article is a feeble attempt at getting closer to reality on the ground.
Sadly, this is as sober as mainstream media gets in the west. I completely agree that the whole idea of a freeze ignores the elephant in the room which is the fact that Russia is winning, and has absolutely no reason to go along with that. Freezing the conflict would basically allow NATO time to rebuild, and then things would revert back to the situation that was in place before the war started.
