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It's coherent to everyone else.
Doing something analogous to what you're saying should happen could have prolonged the Second World War by years. Doing the opposite of what you're suggesting but much sooner could have shortened the Second World War by years. Germany could only afford to get anything done because it was able to loot the countries it invaded during the appeasement era, and only able to manufacture military equipment at the scale necessary to invade France etc. because it was permitted to scale up manufacturing during the appeasement era. It's nearly universally accepted that the appeasement era cost far more lives than would have been lost had France and Britain intervened during the initial invasion of Czechoslovakia as it could have been enough to entirely prevent the later invasions of Poland and France.
What you don't seem to understand is Putin doesn't negotiate in good faith anyway, it has been proven over and over the Russian Government will lie, cheat, steal, whatever to get what they want. Appeasing dictators does not work and only strengthens them for their inevitable march on to attempt to gain more power/land/money.
Man if only there was some example prior to the invasion of Ukraine where the west did nothing, and Russia then continued to escalate, something like Crimea?
I don't know why you keep going back to US actions unrelated to Ukraine.
I completely agree a lot of US foreign interference is done through greed, but this is not one of those instances.
I don't, because it's not directly relevant to the circumstance were talking about.
"But America bad too" isn't a reason to not help Ukraine fight off Russia.
How would we be helping them by letting Russia take over the entire country?
Lmfao, Russia has no interest in diplomacy, they illegal invaded Crimea and annexed it, and the west did nothing.
Big surprise they then invaded ALL of Ukraine, how can you possibly think diplomacy is going to work?
Cynical war indeed, that Russia started as a "special military exercise" and has consistently lied about to their people and abroad.
You're delusional if you think Russia is coming to any diplomatic agreements in good faith.
The punchline is you