So, you actually think you should be giving a KILLER a reason to work with you? He is a killer. If he repents for killing innocent people, you don't think he should be the one to take the first step?
You want to wait for the old kgb guy to REPENT before we end this war? LOL.
Don't hold your breath. That is not a viable strategy. That is just shit talk to support your policy of endless war.
After all, if you are the one giving him an opportunity, he will know that it is important to you and that means he has an advantage. You want to give a killer an advantage over you?
That is an advantage that bad people have over good people.
Always.
Yes, Putin is willing to let his people dying in large numbers for political purposes, and even more willing to kill large numbers of ukrainians for political purposes.
That is one of HIS cards at the table. That was always the case.
Did you think that it could be otherwise?
No, the way to do it is to make it impossible for him to continue the fight. You make his life miserable so that he has NO OTHER OPTION than to come to the table.
We got him at the table, the question is how reasonable we are going to be in giving him a reason or a way out of the trap he has put himself into.
I am surprised in your answer, you being a Trump supporter, given that Trump shows himself to be a strong man that says to everyone "My way or the Highway" but with Putin, he is not doing that. He is saying to Putin "you call the shots". Where is the strong man in that?
Putin is less unreasonable than you lefties have been. There is reason to hope for a reasonable negotiated peace that will allow the Ukrainians to survive and to rebuild.