[tlozo]

why has he offered them terms that would allow them to be a fairly large sovereign country

"Sovereign" country that's disarmed and only exists at the whim of Putin, who I'm sure, will have no more territorial ambitions.

[FLT-bird]

"Sovereign" country that's disarmed and only exists at the whim of Putin, who I'm sure, will have no more territorial ambitions.

So you obviously must think neither Finland nor Austria nor Japan have been sovereign since WWII since none of them were armed much at all and each could have been easily smacked down by any major power.