OMOLIVES, Think, a 7y-old saying, "I just want mommy and daddy to stop fighting."
"I just want the war to end ... It's been more than a decade."
To me they both feel like much of the same.
And you have been told how many times, all here want the war to end. Why don't you accept that.
"And the hate is on me...on a supposed liberal/progressive board??????"
Not hate but bewilderment, disbelief that stuff, at your shortsightedness regarding giving Putin
whatever he wants, just so the war will end.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”