It really doesn't matter what I want, nor what you want. What does Ukraine want? They want a ceasefire. Allies in the EU want a ceasefire. The US also wanted a ceasefire, until Trump got bent over the barrel in AK. Going in, he promised sanctions if a ceasefire wasn't agreed to, then he scurried away from AK like a little bitch.

Interesting. If you read the thread, no one here wants a cease-fire. That's called "surrendering".

What folks also forget is that you can't get a cease-fire if you don't initiate the dialogue. Is Putin a criminal scumbag whom we all hope meets a sticky end? Sure. But you can't just pound the table and demand a cease-fire especially if Putin believes he's winning on the battlefield.

Ergo, it's time to up the pain on the Russians.

Rubio had it right the other day: If you slap really painful sanctions on the Russians now you basically kill any chance of getting them to the table to talk for at least a year. We have to at least give Putin the opportunity to be a lying scumbag.

Which he did.

Now is the time to go after the people who deal with Russia, and get them to put pressure on Putin.