Ukraine has been negotiating with Russia since the very beginning of this war.

Earlier negotiations with Russia, before the war, led to Ukraine giving over its nuclear arsenal to Russia in exchange for a guarantee that Russia would never invade Ukraine.

Was this a good idea, in hindsight?

After repeated, deliberate, and widely documented atrocities by Russia on Ukraine, and Putin's unwillingness to concede anything or punish anyone, it seems unlikely that like a negotiated solution will occur.

Any such solution would of course be wildly unfair to Ukraine and involve countless war crimes going unpunished and unacknowledged.

Russia invaded Ukraine to expand its territory. We have thousands of years of experience with people like Putin.

You somehow seem to believe that, unlike every single imperialist since the dawn of time, that Putin would negotiate in good faith, sign an agreement and keep to it.

And we have decades of experience with Putin, too! What of his past behavior would possibly lead you to believe this?

I've been reading you for a long time, and it's my belief that know all of these facts and just don't find them important.

Your political system is defined simply as opposition to whatever the United States does. Admittedly, this will make you right 95% of the time, but you should be critical, even of your criticism.

The Soviet Union achieved some great things but quickly became just another imperialist. And Russian kept almost none of the good parts of the USSR, just the bad parts. And Putin is particularly bad, because he's particularly effective.

Fascists need to be opposed, even Russian Fascists.

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I'm very sorry for the other bad things going in your life, I really am. It's deadly unfair.