Zelly, initially, was negotiating peace with no internal criticism, then the DC gang got involved. What you say would happen to Zelly would surely happen to Putin if he is defeated by NATO and loses the “new territories”. It’s peace with today’s status quo or WWIII. This is the minimum the Russians will accept today and could have been achieved on March 1, probably 50,000 deaths ago.
Putin has forgotten or is ignoring the lessons of WW2 in Europe, namely that bombardment of civilians only hardens opposition.
Sally can propose peace but the ordinary Ukrainians will not give up land to the bully as they gave suffered too much.
If Putin had just annexed the Donetsk people’s Republic and the Luhansk people’s Republic they would have not liked it, but Putin’s failed invasion of Kyiv showed the Ukrainians that they cannot trust him