Russia Ukraine war, page-6918

"It seems obvious to me that the West (USA and its puppet NATO) doesn't want to escalate this crisis into a hot war against Russia,"

I think the opposite . Biden/Blinken do not want to negotiate. They want to bankrupt and balkanize Russia into easily manipulated and exploited statelets.
That has been the US plan all along. They are risking WW3 to do it.