They stated before the invasion, and then again after the invasion that the Donbass was their goal.
I do give a F that Ukrainians and Russians are needlessly dead for the exact same outcome that was possible weeks after the invasion, which was blatantly obvious.
Russia isn’t withdrawing, and the Ukraine can’t push them out no matter how much we give them short of American troops, and that isn’t going to happen.
So millions of deaths later, hundreds of billions of dollars, weakening of the US dollar, and Russia and China are now Allies , all for the same result that would’ve happened in March 2022.