Native Americans have taught Americans, that land does not exist in isolation, land is the people. It is who live there.
Anyone that has studied this war, know, that is what is the cause of this war. The Ukrainian government not respecting the culture and language of the folks in the eastern parts of their own nation. It is also what caused the war in Yugoslavia when it broke apart. The Bosnia war? Had the same causes as the Ukrainian war, not respecting the sovereign rights of people.
Only folks in Europe and Asia think in terms of "dividing up territory," because they believe in subjecting a people, colonizing them, or. . in the worst case, exterminating them.
Real Americans believe in freedom, liberty, and self-representation, the natural sovereignty of the people and the land is an expression of the people that live there.
Therefor, no one but the people that live there can rule.
. . . any attempt to, "divide up the territory," will, eventually lead to terrorism, rebellion of the native people, and/or, woefully under productive use of the land.
Ukraine is losing this fight, and there will be no lose for Russia.