If anything your examples show that aggressors don't care about diplomatic compromises as long as they believe in their total military victory. > The Russians

If anything your examples show that aggressors don't care about diplomatic compromises as long as they believe in their total military victory. > The Russians are not going to invade NATO countries. Depending on how US elections go, NATO can be no longer a meaningful project anyway. So yes, they are absolutely going to invade if encouraged to do so. Eastern Europeans clearly understand that.