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Which leads me back to the first question - how does this end?

Yergin has a good piece out today on the energy issues you flag.  I'm told his nuke question wrt Germany and the Greens is in play if closure procedure can be reversed.

on end, discussion already begun that West may have to hold nose and offer Putin some face-saving way out (assuming Ukraine's efforts continue to force long-term stalemate and no regime change brought on in Moscow).

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Which leads me back to the first question - how does this end?

Yergin has a good piece out today on the energy issues you flag.  I'm told his nuke question wrt Germany and the Greens is in play if closure procedure can be reversed.

on end, discussion already begun that West may have to hold nose and offer Putin some face-saving way out (assuming Ukraine's efforts continue to force long-term stalemate and no regime change brought on in Moscow).