Call it what they will, ENOUGH PEOPLE are dead, and nothing gained - how about ending this crap before it becomes a mass-extinction event?
The Russians can end it anytime they want and go home. The Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom. Comfortably enjoying your own freedom, you should not deny the Ukrainians the right to preserve theirs.
Letting Putin keep his ill-gotten gains will only TEMPORARILY stop the bloodletting.
If he gets away with this, he will then turn on NATO countries.
By letting him get away with it, you open the doors to a real world war. Just like letting Hitler get away with his dismembering of Czechoslovakia opened the doors to WWII