Of course not.

ChickenHawks don't do combat.

Inciting and facilitating are more their speed.

If he did what you suggest. The West would see weakness and smell blood.

He would be killed by his own in Russia. And NATO would think of finding ways to attack Russia itself.

If not militarily, then by color revolution or coup.

Putin made a vainglorious and stupid decision to invade.

But it's to late to reverse course, there are too many things making that impossible to implement without causing more damage to Russia than defeat.

So I guess it's more war.

NATO bombed Serbia and partitioned it. NATO destroyed Libya.

If they thought Russia was weak enough they would attack.

Pulling back and saying Sorry wouldn't encourage peace. It would invite aggression. NATO only attacks the weak.

Ask the Serbs.

Russia is just mimicking NATO behavior.

Claiming moral high ground it doesn't possess. Attacking weaker nations.

Using economic weight to force outcomes.

I increasingly see both Russia and the West as Imperialist,and almost mirror images of each other.

It sickening to watch... Humanity itself is the problem.

Israel has shown the Total Moral Failure of US foreign policy.

However long it takes they won't quit. They've seen what happens to countries that show weakness. Partition, Coup, Economic Vassalage.

Even if that's Paranoia,it doesn't really matter. The Russians have a history of being invaded from the West. They believe it.

The best solution under the circumstances is to freeze the lines and negotiate a Ukrainian partition.

Ukraine was never a country with it's current historical borders, until 1991.

Kosovo was more a part of Serbia than the Donbass ever was of Ukraine.

NATO had no problem with biting that off by Force. Based on a -------- "duty to protect" that they are currently showing total hypocrisy about in Israel/Palestine.

It's all about your perspective on things and where you're standing.

#22 The Russians have started a war so NATO could invade if they smell weakness?

Russia has been invaded from the West three times in 200 years. Many millions of people were killed.

NATO is Not a defensive alliance. That's pure --------. Ask the Libyan's or the Serbs. Especially the Libyan's.

Why hasn't NATO attacked Israel based on the "Duty to Protect",BS they invoked on Serbia and Libya? Why aren't Palestinians worthy of protection by NATO?

Libyan's were and that was a civil war. Serbs were and that was a collapse of a civil Federation.

The Palestinians have been treated as less human than almost any other group in recent history going back several decades.

All to prop up Israel,the bastard child of the ME. A state created by Fiat without the input of the indigenous inhabitants of the area they Usurped.

By any logical reasoning Israel should be the one bombed and partitioned. The Palestinians are like the Ukrainians, just trying to keep their lands and people intact. Fighting for self determination.

When Hamas attacked Israel they were resisting an ILLEGAL OCCUPATION. They have the right to do that. But apparently the right to resist is only selectively considered to be legitimate.

It's A-Okay for Ukraine to attack civilians in Russia but monstrous evil for Hamas to attack civilians in Israel?br />

You see the problem here?

Ukraine sent operatives into Russia to kill individuals. Ukraine targets cities with missiles. The point is Ukraine is encouraged to resist. They are given Billions of dollars of military assistance.

Hamas is a paramilitary group not a nation state.

They are resisting apartheid and ethnic oppression with state sanctioned murders and home demolitions added to the mix. 70 years of illegal collective punishment.

Israel keeps them in an outdoor prison called Gaza. They restrict calories and water. They refuse to permit any unauthorized movement or association.

Even travel for medically necessary treatment is often denied for no given reasons.

This amounts to an ongoing state of illegal and totally unjust Repression.

Hamas acted opportunistically when Israel dropped their guard. They attacked and had far more success than they expected.

Now the Israeli State is embarrassed by their own weakness. So they kill many times over the number of their own slain. They are completely leveling Gaza because they fear a repeat attack if Hamas survives.

This will result in an unknown but catastrophically high number of deaths by starvation and disease as well as direct military action.

Additionally,high Israeli officials including Netanyahu himself are talking openly in Genocidal terms about their intentions. They are openly discussing ethnic cleansing and annexation of Gaza.

These are all war crimes. But Israel isn't being charged with any war crimes.

They are being funded and armed by the same NATO powers that say Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine.

Why the Double Standard?

Ukraine was oppressing Russians in the Donbass before Russia attacked. They claimed the same "Duty to Protect" that NATO did when they illegally bombed and partitioned Serbia in defiance of the UN.

Why is what NATO does okay, but what Russia does not?

The US installed a Military Base in Kosovo. Not annexation,but certainly not getting out. Peacekeepers still keep the Serbs down in Kosovo. They can't live freely.

Why isn't Israel getting Bombed and partitioned? There's far more obvious evidence of mass killings. The ongoing starvation and untreated disease are being weaponized in a way that would get Israel bombed if they were any other country in the ME.

Oh,sorry,except Yemen,home of the Houthis,my bad. They are disrupting shipping in solidarity with the Palestinians. So they "deserve" it.