I don't really believe we can end this war with threats of any kind. People always seems to believe that works, but history shows that threats tend to just escalate things.

I am not sure labeling Putin a war criminal really has much legs to stand on. You got to prove that he has ordered attacks on civilians.

There is also a question of American hypocrisity to deal with which undermines bringing any war criminals to justice. The US does not reckognize Haag human rights court and sabotage the whole thing by threatening invasion if any American is ever put on trial for human rights violations. Look up the Hague Invasion Act.

Russia can easily point to this gurgantuan hypocrisy if one ever tried to go after Putin. If we are to be an international society ruled by law, then the US cannot make one law for everybody else and another one for themselves.

George W. Bush, Cheney and their other cronies should be trialed for war crimes. At the moment that is still a far more obvious case to be made than for Putin.

I am no fan of Putin and what he is doing, but as far as I know, invading another country is not the same as war crimes. Targeting civilians is war crimes, but you saw how the US has gotten away with that for decades by calling it collateral damage. Russia can play exactly the same game.

Ukraine is a victim of a military superpower doing whatever the hell they want. But so was Iraq, Afganistan and Vietnam as well. An international society built on rules, human rights and respect for human dignity has to built on one rule for all and not one rule for the weak and another one for the strong.

I understand people are angry and want to see Putin punished for what he has done to Ukraine. But we must not forget that things can get a lot worse than they already are.

Russia has done so badly thus far that I think they may be willing to reach a compromise soon if we can give them something that lets Putin save face.

Human psychology is such that we are willing to take on extreme risks to avoid loosing. Thus the more Russia fails, the more Putin will be willing to gamble to turn the tide and get something back.

We got to make sure he feels he won something, or he will just get more and more desperate resorting to more extreme measures. His generals will have no easy way out, as they will beat responsbility for what is happening.

They will not abandon him. Look at Hitler when he was getting the most crazy. His generals did not abandon him. Look at Stalin all the crazy stuff he did. They did not abandon him either.

There does not seem to be much of a precedence for the people around Tyrants to abandon them.

I think we must accept that Russia will not just give up without any kind of gains. Look at the US how hard it has been for them to pull out if Vietnam, Iraq and Afganistan. Wars that go awry tend to create their own reasons to stay.