There’s definitely no reason to negotiate with Putin. Macron and Scholz both embarrass themselves by even mentioning it. How are you supposed to trust the word of a man who launched a thousand war crimes on the basis of an obvious falsehood and who sanctions tactics like bombing civilian cities to the ground?

NATO is playing by “the rules” of mutually assured destruction and trying to avoid anything that could be seen as an offensive against Russia, but Russia may in fact be a paper tiger. As Vindman pointed out — we killed something like 100 Russian troops with a single airstrike in Syria and Russia didn’t do s***. I’m glad we’re giving Ukraine HIMARS, even if with the restrictor plate on. Perhaps you’re right, and we should give Ukraine whatever it wants to defend itself.