Macron isn’t the guy to carry the bannner for this message, but yes, you should always leave the enemy a way to retreat. Unless you intend to annihilate him, which nobody is going to do, at least not from outside Russia.
Yes - but that is not the same as not humiliating him.
Regards,
it is speculated that the severity of reserves theft and sanctions right out of the gate was intended to prevent russia from politically being able to back off quickly. at that point they were already paying 300 billion USD + so they weren’t going to back down.
obviously it has become clear we had significant integration with the ukraine military (or are simply running some aspects of it, cyberwarefare, air defences, etc). we are bragging quite a bit about it, possibly to goad russia into finally giving the west something to justify open military intervention. it is somewhat ironic that to the observant, it makes russia’s point about ukraine becoming a pro-western militarized state, nato or not.
WEF Grad Macron is a numbskull to wade into this. I had hoped the French citizens would have tossed his a$$ out but likely got re-elected by stolen ballots.