If I understand this unintentionally hilarious article correctly, the writer believes that endless western appeasement of Putin is the only possible course of action. Heaven forfend anyone would want to upset ordinary Russians being brainwashed by relentless Kremlin propaganda! Maybe the "real answer" is for NATO to shell, bomb, and rocket Ukraine, rape and mutilate Ukrainian women, and execute unarmed civilians in the streets so as to save Putin's thuggish inept army the trouble?