You’ve got to give him an out to save face. An injured/cornered animal is a dangerous thing.
Give him the territories he took (who were mostly Russian sympathetic anyway) and call it a victory for him. Wait for him to die and then you can retake the lands.
You’ve got to give him an out to save face. An injured/cornered animal *with a huge nuclear arsenal, some of which may just work,* is a *really, really* dangerous thing.
FTFY
“You’ve got to give him an out to save face. An injured/cornered animal is a dangerous thing. Give him the territories he took (who were mostly Russian sympathetic anyway) and call it a victory for him. Wait for him to die and then you can retake the lands.”
He can save face by withdrawing from Ukraine completely, followed up by a profuse apology.
“ You’ve got to give him an out to save face.”
60,000 dead on one side, many thousands dead on the other . And you are concerned about his face ?
How do you do that and still give Ukraine their territory back?
I'm fine with a face saving gesture to obtain peace. But no way should we reward Putin with any land. And Russia should pay reparations too.
Not all 9f the territories were pro Putin. Definitely not Kherson or Zaporizhzhia
Zaporizhzhia Oblast, which is incredibly important to Russia’s long term strategic aims, was NOT mostly Russian sympathetic prior to Pooty blasting its cities to rubble and millions fleeing. Check the last census the Soviets took, if you don’t believe the later Ukie census(pl.).
Without Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Kherson is not tenable either.
Nor is there any guarantee that a real hardliner would not take over from Putin. In fact, if Pooty had died from natural causes in 2021, it’s fairly certain Russia invades Ukraine anyway. The signals from the USA were far more a “go now” factor than Russian leaderships’ goals in general. They merely bided their time for an opportunity (as PDJT correctly analyzed, but described such that the MSM could pounce on him.)
Then later, how do you retake the lands from leadership who can still cite their “victory” to gain popular support, and who are probably just as willing to use the (now proved successful) “nukes to defend “our” land” blackmail as Putin is?