Leave Russia undefeated and we may have a Bosnia or Korea type armistice, and an indefinite future of low intensity conflict, but not peace. True peace requires the total defeat of the aggressor and a political settlement that includes his renunciation of empire and war.

Absent total defeat, war just hibernates to reappear later. The Union won the war in 1865, and lost the peace after 1877. Neo-Confederate race terror merely dressed up slavery differently (chain gangs, black codes, Jim Crow) until the civil rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. January 6, a neo-confederate white christian race terror rebellion, was an example of how to win the war and lose the peace in allowing the lost cause of the defeated to just hibernate instead of totally defeating it.