What course of action and outcome are you arguing for?
To me the most hopeful and least destructive outcome would be a diplomatically managed de-escalation (with all the ongoing dangers and risks that entails, and an effective frozen conflict) and a negotiated peace with territorial concessions to Putin, which would probably include Crimea and the Donbas. I don't think I've said anything different for a long time.
Here is how that Payson and Cohen piece ends:
Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse, and it is Russia, not Ukraine, that is losing the attritional war, which makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic. Ukraine has plenty of cards, even if Trump and Vance cannot see them. If America’s leaders could only bring themselves to put pressure on Russia comparable to what they put on Ukraine, they could help Ukraine achieve something much more like a win.
I get that my views mean I'm a Russian mouthpiece or a Chamberlain-esque surrender monkey or whatever. But in the camp that wants this war to keep going I don't get what the criteria are for supporting a negotiated peace.
What does "something much more like a win" actually mean?