For the past SIXTEEN MONTHS, the West has happily gone along with "negotiations" with Ham Ass, a full-blown, virulently antisemitic terrorist group that freely espouses the elimination of all Jews from planet Earth.
Y'all were just fine with that.
But when Trump tries to negotiate with Russia's dictator, suddenly your panties are in a wad.
Why? You fucking hypocrites.
Russia is estimated to have lost some 100,000 in the war, far more than in Gaza. Many, if not most, were "drafted," i.e., forced to fight--they weren't professional soldiers. I will be honest: I don't give a fuck about Russians, but if you're whacked out about Palestinians--many of whom support Hamas and also hate Jews and wish us dead---why aren't you equally upset about Russkies?
All wars bring collateral damage---the polite term for civilian casualties. And I have yet to see a war end that didn't bring with it a fairly wide swath of complete 360 on how enemy countries are seen.
America was instrumental in rebuilding Nazi Germany after WWII---and such a tiny fraction of Nazis were killed for their atrocities. Many more were hired and brought to the US, courtesy of Uncle Sam, to work in aerospace, "science," and intelligence. Allen Dulles couldn't wait to learn all about the techniques Nazis had used to torture Jews and other concentration camp victims.
Japan is now a major ally, and they were our arch enemy during the war. Russia was our ally...at least after 1941...and then they weren't.
Diplomacy, treaties, ceasefires are all a degree of bullshit that largely mean nothing. Wars are seldom about only what is espoused. And the end of wars often do not end what the fighting was about.
Wake up and smell the vodka. Russia won't change, and the Middle East certainly won't, either.