How many wars has Putin started? How many peace agreements has he made then broken?
Why would we have trusted him?
Right now, the Ukrainians are an extinct people. That’s from how we went about trying contain Putin. The Ukrainians, because they eliminated the most productive ages from their country have joined the Yazidis in history as to having been eliminated. That’s what we got from how we did things.
By allowing Putin to protect his people, as he claimed, it would have forced him to either keep his word or a third world war, where all of the resources of the West could have been used to defeat him and remove him. Possibly without having the Ukrainians join the Yazidis in the process.