Originally Posted by
mahogany bob
WHAT TO DO ??
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..... but can anyone come up with a BETTER solution?
Yep, your proposal would be the kindergarten solution.
Whenever you give the bully (part of) what it wants, the bullying goes on. So, better stop the bully.
Don't forget, we have another Authoritarian bully in China, reaching for eternal power, equally eager to invade another free country and claiming all the Southern China Sea as its territorial coastal waters. There is only one option to stop such a bully: Show how Russia gets destroyed as a consequence of its aggression (just like Germany with WWII).
Oh, and use the confiscated Russian possessions outside Russia, as well as the Russian natural resources sales, to rebuild Ukraine according to Western quality standards.