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For me, nothing is guaranteed. This includes Russia continuing to take more territory after an agreement is reached or even that NATO doesn't expand its members further, leading to Russia feeling threatened again and deciding to invade another sovergin country. So, for me, they could keep the war going to prevent what they speculate might happen, and while doing this, "accept" that another 100k+ Ukrainian soliders will die, or end it, get back to normalcy and maybe Putin dies and his successor doesn't do something similar.