 But there's this rather important article. He points out what others before him, Ray McGovern, had already identified that back in March of 2022 in Istanbul, both Putin and Zelensky essentially had agreed to end the conflict. And then Putin withdrew troops from around the Ukraine. They postponed the settlement of the Crimea question for 15 years in the future so it wouldn't be a part of standing in the way of a peace negotiation.