Originally Posted by
WideScreen
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.
Agreed, giving into demands will just kick the can down the road, look at Crimea, bar Ukraine resisting, the world had condemned and more or less accepted it with no sanctions etc, which in it's own way gave Putin his green light to think he could have another bite at the pie.