This IS Offramp ...

 ... each time he and the US are offered it--he comes back to the square one (because his masters demand so) and he gets himself deeper and deeper into the excrement, especially considering the fact that the US simply ran out of not military options only, but material ones as well. 

Trump may now abandon both Russia and Ukraine. Donald Trump is caught between a rock and a hard place. The rock, which is vast and apparently unable to move, is Russia. The hard place is Ukraine, and the European countries standing resolutely beside it. The US president had promised to settle the war within 24 hours of taking office, later extending that to 100 days. But it has now been some 317 days since his second inauguration, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows no signs of slowing. The US president has flirted with both punishing Moscow and Kyiv for obstructing his attempts to settle the almost four-year war. With Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner returning to Washington without a deal, a decision will have to be made over what comes next from an American perspective.

When even rabidly anti-Russian The Telegraph gets it, then Trump simply has NO choice. Or rather--do what you said before on board of Air Force One--let them "fight it out". That's the only "deal" he can get and ... the offramp. I want to remind again the words of Field-Marshal Paulus at Nuremberg: 

At the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Goering's lawyer ironically remarked that, while in captivity, Field Marshal Paulus lectured on strategy at the Soviet Higher Military Academy named after K. E. Voroshilov (which in fact did not happen). Paulus, who was present at the meeting as a witness, replied: "The Soviet strategy was so far superior to ours that the Russians could hardly need me, even to teach at the school for non-commissioned officers. The best proof of this is the outcome of the battle on the Volga, as a result of which I was taken prisoner, and also the fact that all these gentlemen are sitting here in the dock." A more devastating assessment of the criminal strategists of Nazi Germany, perhaps, cannot be made!

Russians have a joke (and it is really not a joke)--fighting Russia is like fighting one huge advanced military academy attached to one huge military-industrial plant. Ben Hodges doesn't know military history, he also doesn't have a grasp of operations be that in WW II or in 2025.

Daniel simply stomped on him. Good Lord, this was a SACEUR. BTW, still haven't heard back from Mario Nawfal about, now questionable, my "debate" with Bed Hodges. One can only hope)) Meanwhile--countries, like people, love victors, especially if the victor is rich. Before that those were just negotiations, now, as WSJ reports, it is an offer from Sudan. 

Sudan’s government, based in the interim capital Port Sudan, has offered Russia its first naval base in Africa and investments in the mining sector, particularly gold, in exchange for weapons, according to US and Sudanese sources. According to Sudanese officials who spoke to the newspaper, the offer includes a 25-year agreement allowing Moscow to deploy up to 300 soldiers and four warships, including nuclear-powered vessels, in Port Sudan or another naval facility on the Red Sea.

Keep in mind WHAT kind of weapons those ships carry. 

Make your own conclusions. I'll help you. 

This is the range of hypersonic 3M22 Zircon. The range of 3M14M is ... three times longer.