The headline suggests that this is the EU and US failure to find a common ground with Russia, but the article itself describes Putin's refusal to even negotiate

The headline suggests that this is the EU and US failure to find a common ground with Russia, but the article itself describes Putin's refusal to even negotiate, which is a position quite consistent for an autocrat, so nothing new under the sun. Personally, I find this insistence in bringing back the carcass of the USSR, idiotic. There is not much to gain from invading Ukraine, but antagonizing the EU and their allies.