I don't think this article will age well. Trump will do everything possible to ensure Russian domination of Ukraine and Putin knows that violence is always the answer. I remember commentators and journalists writing about how the Tiananmen Square massacre would destroy China's ability to engage with the rest of the world... followed by more than two decades of Chinese economic growth via exports and dramatically increasing political and military power. Violence used without hesitation can buy a leader a great many years, and Putin has seen what happens when leaders fail to use violence without hesitation. He's a puffy little halfwit but, unlike the mindless creature Trump, he's not stupid.