Negotiate? Putin believes Ukraine is an artificial construct that should not exist as an independent state.
I’ve heard aid to Ukraine described as Lockheed’s retirement fund for executives, and I can see some truth in that. But I can’t help but wonder how much more it’s going to cost us when after Ukraine Russia takes Poland, Slovakia,Hungary and down to Serbia. Sooner or later we’ll have to take a stand and the longer we wait the more costly it will be. If we had slapped Putin down when he first tried to take Crimea, would he have moved against Ukraine?