Kepler
Cornell Big Red
I'm still not seeing the issue...
It's the Mearsheimer-Hoover idea that Western assistance to Ukraine means Russia blows up the world, so let's give them Ukraine and maybe they'll go away.
Putin will continue to use nuclear blackmail. If we are going to give Ukraine away in the face of it, we might as well give away the Baltics and Poland.
We have to call the bluff eventually, so call it right up front, otherwise we are sending mixed signals and telling them our word is no good. "You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth."
Putin screwed up royally. NATO did not fragment despite the Republican traitors. The unaligned European countries are spooked and getting off the fence and joining. Ukraine has humiliated Russia by retaining its sovereignty. Build on that, strengthen it, keep building a new, strong, anti-authoritarian Europe and push back both on Putin and all his useful idiots in the European Right.