Anyone who thinks there's even a fractional possibility of "sensible negotiation" with the Putin regime has failed to grasp basic reality. But that's a common human trait - we live in solipsistic fantasy worlds on which reality has almost zero purchase. That's why you can fool all of the people all of the time, whether you're a puffy little intellectually stunted ex-KGB colonel or a bloated mindless orange moron. And now that we have lovely modern weapons, we get to slaughter each other even more easily than ever before! Isn't human kind truly wonderful?