Who can stop the senseless war going on in Ukraine? The list is quite short.. First, Vladimir Putin, secondly, Putin, and thirdly, again, Putin. If you want to expand this list, you can add his name again. He is the only one who unleashed a war against Ukraine. It was he who sent 190 thousand soldiers to the border in February, preparing an invasion..

People around the world begged him not to launch the biggest unprovoked attack in Europe since World War II.. But he ignored it and intruded anyway. American journalist David Von Drele writes about this in an article for the Washington Post, adding that only a Russian autocrat is able to "

But, ironically, leaders and thinkers from various political camps seem to believe that the US and its allies have the power to stop the bloodshed.. From Henry Kissinger on the right, to Katherine Vanden Gevel on the left, and Senator Rand Paul, whose political stance is constantly shifting, all of these voices have recently complained that Ukrainian resistance, backed by allies, is somehow hindering the truce.. This is nonsense.

Since the first days of the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly offered Russia the most generous terms of a truce compatible with the restoration of stability and peace.. Even after the Russian army was beaten mercilessly for three weeks, Zelensky only asked that Russia return to the positions it held before the invasion and pledge to respect Ukrainian sovereignty.. Ukraine would pause its European integration on the verge of full NATO membership. Talk about " Its troops have been waging a brutal war against civilian centers for more than three months, raping, robbing, kidnapping and killing civilians.. But Zelensky's terms would allow Putin to return to the pre-invasion status quo.. In doing so, he would lose no more than national prestige, if any..

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Allowing Putin to leave on such terms is something the world can safely allow.. Giving him even a gram more would be a betrayal of a vital principle that says that fascist kleptocrats cannot steal territory with tanks and block food supplies in the 21st century.. Without a doubt, Kissinger and company are motivated by a laudable desire to stop the horrendous violence, as well as eliminate the threat of further escalation as soon as possible.. But they overestimate the ability of the West to impose conditions on Ukrainians.

The whole world was surprised by the patriotism of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his people when the invasion had just begun. This patriotism will not evaporate just because someone in Washington, Berlin or Brussels says so. Ukrainian partisans work in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol. The resistance movement staged an explosion of the car of the representative of the occupation regime. The mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov promised that in Melitopol under the feet of the Russians "

“Remember the grandmothers who prepared Molotov cocktails in the early days of the war? Such a people decides when to stop fighting,” the article says..

In addition, it is important that Putin does not want peace. He went very far just to escape the world. He and his country paid a heavy price for fighting against the world. Even as Russia's military and economy collapse, Putin refuses to negotiate a truce. Diplomats persuaded him to start a dialogue. But he still didn't want to be serious. Instead, Putin moved from a failed Plan A (a pointless blitzkrieg to overthrow the government in Kyiv and conquer the entire country) to a failed Plan B (a thwarted attempt to pin Ukrainian forces in the Donbas) and then to a failed Plan C. "

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All these failed efforts cost Putin dearly.. Instead of negotiating a truce, he chose the destruction of hundreds of Russian tanks, the humiliation of the Russian Air Force, the destruction of the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet cruiser Moskva, the death and injury of tens of thousands of Russian soldiers, the decline of the command of the Russian army, the collapse of the morale of the troops. And all this at a time when economic pressure is squeezing all the juice out of the Russian way of life..

Few in the West understand Ukraine and Russia better than Yale historian Timothy Snyder.. He recently gave a clear answer to those who believe that Putin can be forced into peace by persuasion..

“Some observers of the Russian-Ukrainian war seem to think that the biggest danger is if Ukraine wins or wins too quickly.. And that it will be uncomfortable for Putin, but for some reason we should be worried about this. This is a very perverted way of looking at things.. Destruction, crimes of genocide - these are the things that should worry us, not Putin's vanity,"

Putin will stop the war only when he decides he has no other choice. Therefore, Ukraine must continue to fight.