The problem is if we look at it objectively this was and is Russian Federation external politics since the Yeltsin era.
RF was doing what it is currently doing for the last 30 years or even longer. They invaded Chechenia, nothing happened, they invaded, Georgia, nothing happened, they supported Assad, nothing happened.
Now they invading Ukraine, and nothing is happening. Not really.
The weapons supplies Ukraine is getting from the US or paid for with US's money, are nothing new. Georgia had per capita higher US military funding than Israel at the time did.
The sanctions sort of work, but considering out of the countries that are implementing them only Germany is a large importer of Russian products and that is still not sanctioned. India and China the two largest Russian petroleum importers are still buying from them.
So to everybody saying Putin has become insane/irrational/erratic/dangerous or changed his tactics. No, he didn't. He always was dangerous, even back in 1999 when he had a very modest deck in his hand, he sent a warship to Adriatic and deployed a small group of troops to the Pristina International Airport to hold it. If anything the man is doing the exact thing he was doing for years. Ukraine is just the biggest target he ever put his crosshairs on.
The world's media is flip-flopping on the man. They made him a rockstar, now they made him the big bad. He never changed.
My point is that what we are hearing is not the whole picture.
Also to illustrate how problematic saying the world is united versus Russia, have a map.
This is the map of the international community. It is only a part of the world, and not even the largest or even the most populous one, it is only the richest.
So to anyone thinking that we are winning. No, we are not. We are paying with money, and the Ukrainians are paying with blood.
We are not doing enough!
PS:I didn't make that map. It is missing Greenland.
Enough ranting:
www.globaltimes.cn
An Global Times article about the China-US talks.