So, maybe, just maybe, as Helmer's article suggested, US is trying to signal they want to talk:
https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/thread/1674769303.html

Not sure how they will extricate themselves from the appalling wreckage that Ukie neocon nutters, as in Nuland and Blinken, have cooked up.

Meanwhile, I am told, the arms industry stocks are on the way down. If wishes were fishes:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lockheed+martin+stock&atb=v314-1&ia=stock