“I am quite certain Ukraine’s wives and mothers think the same.”
Yup; they are very much opposed to Putin invading their country and their homes and putting their entire families at risk. Putin can end this today if he stops the war and withdraws all Russian troops back to Russia, as its borders existed in 2013.
And NATO could have prevented this by saying they weren’t allow Ukraine to join. But I guess that’s too high a price, huh? Anyway, we have billions of dollars to waste and both of those sides have thousands of men to waste. Plus, we all risk nuclear war to boot.