I tend to agree, because he’d listen to his handler Vlad and tell NATO to drop it. 
IMO eastern Ukraine is doomed. The separatist regions are going to pull a Crimea by declaring independence, conducting a phony referendum, and voting with a 98% majority to join Russia. Or maybe they’ll stay independent and join the CIS, just to create a wider border for Russia. Russia might want a few more eastern regions for itself. I doubt they want the west, since, unlike the east, the west has too few ethnic Russians, and the ethnic Ukrainians tend to hate everyone who isn’t Ukrainian.
Taiwan is also on the verge of doom in the long term. Their only way to survive as an independent state is to make it extremely expensive for China to conquer militarily. But China’s economic might is growing faster than anyone else’s, which also funds their military ambitions.