I mean my god they seem absolutely committed to driving us all off a cliff to hang on to their already-collapsing hegemony. Is there literally anything short of getting their teeth kicked in by a nuclear launch that could convince the leaders of "the free world" to once, just fucking once, willingly take the L?
I don't want to die in the opening cutscene of a Fallout game because whoever the hell is in charge of Germany these days decided to get into a pissing match with fucking Putin of all people.
Putin has been seeking a diplomatic resolution to this problem almost since he seized power in 2000. Every attempt at diplomacy by the Russians has been flatly rejected and NATO has continued to relentlessly encroach on the Russian border. Putin has made many, many attempts at diplomacy since the coup in 2014 and all of them, including the ones brokered by France, have been shut down hard by Ukraine and their masters in NATO.
Russia can't stop this war because Russia didn't start the war. Pillaging and looting Russia has been a goal of the West since at least the formation of NATO in 1949. NATO, and by extension the US, are getting what they want. Russia is being weakened. Europe is facing total economic collapse that will make it even more of a helpless vassal of the US. So far the sanctions regime has only really hurt Europe, leaving Russia largely unscathed. Dedollarization is still in the works but Washington doesn't seem to care that much.
And of course in this late-capitalist world where everything that can be stolen has been stolen and everything that can be exploited has been exploited, the only way left to turn a profit to to destroy massive amounts of capital through industrial warfare, so in addition to everything else Washington is getting an excuse to feed tremendous amounts of money in to the Military Industrial Complex.
This was all planned out by NATO and the US decades ago. It's been their strategic goal probably since the USSR was dismantled. Every single diplomat and strategist active in the last thirty years was 100% aware that attempting to expand NATO in to Ukraine would, one way or another, lead to a direct conflict if not open warfare. Joe Biden literally said it himself.
We're hear because NATO and the US want us to be here. Only NATO and the US can stop this. And they don't want to stop this.