This war, I believe, was intended to go nuclear.
And that is where it is going to go, imo.
I’m not advocating appeasement, per se.
Just a realignment of territory where Russia has a legitimate concern about it’s ethnic people.
Outside of that, I would not appease Russia any further than that.
That's appeasement.
How about this: the 2015 Minsk Agreement (or whatever it's called) gets implemented and everyone goes home?
The problem Putin faces is this: When you invade a sovereign country, YOU'RE the bad guy.
Now you and I may not see ANY good guys in all this, because there aren't. The problem is, the rest of the world (uneducated, ignorant, pre-programmed by the media) doesn't. They just see "Putin bad!" without seeing "Zelensky bad!" too.
A simplistic view, and yet that's the entire problem.
I don't believe in appeasement as a means to achieve "peace" because it won't last. Never does. History.
“Just a realignment of territory where Russia has a legitimate concern about it’s ethnic people.”
Where have you seen any sign that Russia, which for now is all Putin, has exercised any legitimate concern for his people. He only considers his people the white Russians west of the Urals. He is doing his best to feed all other Russians into the meat grinder since they are not his people. He is just like Hitler for whom only the Aryans were German, which is why he murdered at least 10 million other Germans.
Putin still has a way to go to hit 10 million, but he is already over 100,000.