I am inexperienced at Statecraft but I have been told, over and over, that Ukraine fights for all of us. Not just to defeat a flesh and blood adversary, a leader whose people boast their country has no borders, but to defend Western civilization's chosen path. My grandparents generation and them before them came back from war and decided there must be law to govern countries' interactions, no more spheres of influence, no more might makes right. They chose the Rule of Law.

If we capitulate to the American president and his buddy, in any demand at all, we lose all of that. A ceasefire will do nothing but buy Putin time to rearm. He has no future unless we give him one. His economy is crumbling, he has no real army and he's running out of meat grinder material so fast he plans to field the oldest of the Ukrainian boys he kidnapped.... We have 300 billion of his ill gotten gains. Where is our advantage to let him have anything?