The West spoke to the Milosevic butcher, why should I do the same with Putin?

Some Westerners suspect that Ukraine is simply fighting a war. The Russian invasion was all untested. Despite statements they may have had regarding NATO's expansion or the mistreatment of Russians from Ukraine in Donbas, no one attacked Russia, and no one was planning to do so. It's Vladimir Putin who launched a full war and aggression with territorial consequences.

So after all this, there is also the support of Ukraine's doing its best. But it is not quite clear that all this support we are giving (and not giving) is the proper way to protect the Ukrainian nation.

The more this war grows, the more Ukrainians will leave their homeland, and the more destruction there will be in their homes, cities, industry and economy.

Western aid in support of Ukraine is in defense of aggression and gun support in this purpose by avoiding possible military intervention, guarantees the duration of the war. Russian progress in Ukraine may slow down, but it will be impossible to stop altogether, thus causing more Ukrainians to leave their country and more war crimes caused in the field.

No single day goes by when we don't hear Western policy senators claiming Ukraine will be successful and that Russia will fail. This may be seen in the framework of moral growth. But clearly, it doesn't make any sense.

The fact is that as long as more villages and cities pass, they will be destroyed and brought into the hands of the Russians. In two months, the controlled parts of the Donba region by the Russians has increased for almost five times. If Russia continues to suffer this way, in the next two months of the entire south of Ukraine will be in their hands, and the city like Odessa will have the fate of Marioupolis, and thousands of Ukrainians will have died.

Even worse, if war continues, and cities and villages are destroyed, it will become even more impossible for Ukrainians who have left their country to ever return because they have almost lost their jobs and their homes. How will all those people return to Marioupolis?

If Russia's goal was to eradicate the Ukrainian nation, then the Western strategy is helping.

Of course, if the lives of Ukrainian people are our concern, then the West must do something to stop this war: now.

By encouraging Ukrainians to continue this way despite their cause, we are making this country unpopular.

Hall is that there are only two ways to end the war quickly, and neither of them is pleasant to most Western leaders.

One would be NATO's involvement to end the war quickly, with massive blows on Russian invading forces. In view of Russian action, they would have every right under international law to do so. When Putin intervened in Syria, he clarified that he did so in response to the Syrian, legitimate and internationally accepted government. The West should do the same in Ukraine. Putin himself has no excuse for this invasion.

The danger of becoming involved in something like this is the Third World War, so the West refuses to intervene directly.

Another option is to push Putin to implement an immediate ceasefire agreement, inviting Russia to peace talks. Western leaders are not inclined to dialogue with a butcher like Putin. But they have done so with Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, just months after the Srebrenica massacre, the dialogue after which the Dayton Agreement was made and ended the war in Bosnia in 1995.

To bring Putin to the table, everything must be presented as questionable including the borders of Ukraine, which are an emotional concern of Russia's security. More important is talking than fighting.

Westerners would more readily continue to let Ukraine fight in the hope of forgiving victorious in front of Russia. But one thing is certain: Putin will never accept defeat. He's already got too deep into this job, so easily pulled. If Western leaders think that continuing to reinforce the Ukrainian Army with weapons and encourage them to fight until victory, then they are fatally reading Putin's intentions and resolving the issue. For Ukraine's sake, we have to stop it now, in one way or another, before nothing remains, in the country we want to protect.

Shit.

/ Original Titus: The more we arm Ukraine, the more we destroy it / Angus Roxburgh is former BBC correspondent in Moscow / Writing about The Guardian/ ♪ Dafina Demaku/Periscopi/