A vote to keep Zelinsky? That will never happen after Zelinsky crossed the Rubicon. Novorossiya will be partitioned off. I'm just telling you, as a student of history, what will happen.
This can be negotiated without invading. But Putin does not want to wait
The US policy has consistently been to admit Ukraine to NATO with Ukraine being committed to that by constitutional amendment. The west showed no interest in negotiating on that because "Putin" (All 200,000 of him) is bad - all the sophistication as orange man bad. So the west got the war they asked for.
But Putin’s invasion guarantees that NATO will arm Ukraine.
And provoke a nuclear power without a mandate in your charter that permits it. No.
And as for “This can be negotiated without invading. But Putin does not want to wait”. Putin did not let DC do their plan of using pointless negotiations to buy time for them to change facts on the ground. That’s why he gave them a reasonable 90 day timeframe for an agreement and concrete action.
We flipped them the finger and gave them the letter saying we would not honor a single request, but we would negotiate about other things we thought were worth discussing.
So he did the sensible thing and decided to act. No point talking to a brick wall or a determined idiot.