Putin probably won’t be around to see it happen, but one of the possible outcomes of this insane conflict might be that what he intended to be Russia’s large western province will instead turn into an eastern European Switzerland: skilled in turning its strategic location into a trading center, with citizens who speak the languages of all bordering countries, as well as German, English and French, good relations with both the USA and Israel, thus assuring up-to-date high tech, as well as establishing English language international universities, much as the Netherlands did with Maastricht or the Lebanese did in Beirut.