Raoul_Luke
I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive.

Germany’s Schroeder Says Ukraine Peace Possible After Meeting With Putin
Germany’s controversial former chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, who has been cast adrift by his own party over his ties to Vladimir Putin and lucrative jobs with Russian state energy firms, said he met with the Russian president in Moscow last week and insisted that the Kremlin is open to talks to...

This is a no-brainer. Unless you are a bonafide war monger or, worse, a MIC insider, then you pursue a negotiated peace. Anyone who says you don't is either a moron or a mindless ideologue (or both). Any Ukrainian who rejects peace negotiations is insane. The US is not going to ever give them enough weaponry to win, and is obviously only interested in an indefinite conflict to weaken Russia. If they think they have it hard now, wait until late November - in addition to starving, they will also be freezing. Zalensky doesn't care - he's very comfortable in Kyiv:
Zelensky poses for Vogue magazine as his country collapses | BLiTZ (weeklyblitz.net)
And criticizes the American people for whining about inflation when his government needs hundreds of billions in military and "humanitarian" aid.
I don't miss Trump's histrionics, but I sure do miss his opposition to endless, idiotic wars, supported by blank checks signed by the American people.