“Sue for peace and stop the fighting.”
That would be workable if Putin really meant not to come back after a few years and attack again.
See my answer above — it’s like you have a neighbor who grabs a chunk of your garden and you decide to let it go, but then, later he comes and tries to grab your living room.
You can’t negotiate with such a thug
Like a neighbor who used to own my entire property and still sees it as his grabbing part of my garden. A neighbor I had a long bloody history with with many thousands dying and resentment and bitterness growing without end. And in which the neighborhood is encouraging me to fight fight fight no matter how many of the slaves in my garden that I have subjugated to my rule who must die in order that I may rule them rather than the other corrupt tyrant?