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Originally Posted by Pierre
You have to give him a way out, or this continues.
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This isn't giving him a way out, it's giving him a huge victory. One of the conditions will almost certainly be that sanctions are removed as well. So he would have won a compliant government in Ukraine, Crimea officially recognised as Russian and two new puppet 'independent' states. Huge success for Putin and a reward for his aggression.
It has to stop. We can't keep making concessions to his violence and bullying. It has ramifications beyond Ukraine to all of Europe. He'll just do it again and once again it'll be 'Well, you need to give him something'. We need him to lose and be seen to lose. Even if he gets the above via violence at least the sanctions will damage Russia's economy to the point it cost too much and not only does it make him think twice about another invasion but Russia won't have the economic ability to wage another war.