What is happening now is the Russian economy collapsing and thousands of Russian soldiers returning home in body bags in just the past few weeks. The same things that caused the fall of the Soviet Union.
- 1 is a joke which cannot be accepted.
- 3 is a bluff.
- 2 is the only option. Ukraine has already beaten you in the north. How long till it defeats you in the east and south?
Ukraine will suffer many dead civilians and hundreds of billion in damages, but Russia is losing thousands of soldiers and the economic impact will last for decades while Ukraine will be rebuilt.
All of the Russian criticism was plainly self serving anyway. You can clearly tell by this war that they had no qualms with anything the US did in Iraq, excluding maybe their own geopolitical interests in the area.
Whatever was done in the past, is something you have to allow everyone else to do?
Surely you see how that is morally untenable?
Errors of the past do not need to be repeated or allowed. (Even though they likely will be as human life is complex and fallible).
I see basically 3 possibilities. Ukraine agrees to neutrality, Ukraine resists neutrality and has its country destroyed and is eventually forced to agree to it anyway (what is happening now), or the western powers start a hot war with Russia and risk WW3/nuclear holocaust. Given those options I'd go with the first.