“Trump seems the only leader of consequence that is willing to seek a less bellicose option.”
So are Xi and Modi, but of course the former is in the tank for Putin.
As to the rest of your post, you make many valid points, but you don’t speak to the views of Carlson’s guest, Cooper, which point to Churchill being culpable in part for Hitler’s war.
Says Cooper: “The reason I resent Churchill so much for it is that he kept this war going when he had no way, he had no way to go back and fight this war.” So to Cooper suing for peace would have been the only acceptable course, and Carlson raises no objection.
Further, the glib dismissal of the murder of Jews and Poles as an unavoidable happenstance of an invasion that was too successful and rapid is downright sickening.
By the time Churchill became Prime Minister in the late spring of 1940 the war was already in full swing. With Hitler & Stalin on the same side he had two bad options: surrender or fight on. He probably chose the lesser evil.