Understatement of epic proportions, matching nicely the disordered thinking that characterizes most of this piece. If the eventual settlement "takes full measure of the blood spilled and the human suffering endured then putin will spend time at the Hague in a glass cage and then the rest of his miserable existence in a ten foot cell. Justice for putin, of course, would demand a Medieval Inquisitor and a lot of time, but then the non-putin world has moved past that.