What’s the smart play when you’ve lost some 20% of your territory and are at great risk of losing the other 80% if hostilities continue?
If we elected some weak dingbat like Obama again, and Russia somehow invaded Alaska, and the northeast, or Canada invaded Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, the Dakotas, and Northwest, and were on their way South, what would you do? Surrender?
Mexico managed to take the American southwest back , and were on the verge of. entering Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana on their way to the East... what would you do? Surrender?
If you were Germany and the Turks invaded in order to kill a large percentage of your population, say, your Jews, your Christians, or your libertarians, or some demographic group they don’t like because they are accused of Islamophobia, and took 20% of your country...would you surrender? Would you trust an agreement you have no hope of enforcing, where they promise only to kill 20% now but would cross their fingers and swear on their mothers’ lives never ever take another chunk and kill more Islamophobics, would you believe them? Only if you are really gullible.
You know your enemy kills all rivals even if they are fellow Russians, so you know they will kill your men and deport your people to Siberian camps because they did it before...