Yes that's what I try to communicate with you. It's complex and the only language authoritarian dictators understand is power and violence.

The war can end tomorrow, Putin just needs to pull his troops from Ukraines sovereign Territory.

If Ukraine lays down the weapons they will all be killed as many times publicly stated and called for on Russias biggest broadcasting channel.

Putin got lied to by his own military command and expected a flower war like Hitler with the Anschluss of Austria.

But instead it was all lies, the Ukrainians did not want to join the federation and he got Himars instead of Flowers.

Using the same old Tactics the Sovjet already used in Afghanistan his command forgot that the Ukrainian Command also got trained in the sovjet era and so his 3 day invasion failed in the first 12 hours.

Here is an exceptional documentary about it. Only 20mins long and I highly recommend you watch it!