Nothing creates confusion more than war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that "diplomacy leads to peace and peace is desirable for every human being.”
Yet Ukrainian officials have furiously denounced suggestions — most recently from 99-year-old former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger — that they settle for a return to the status quo ante, leaving Vladimir Putin in control of large swathes of Ukrainian territory.
Ukraine "does not trade its sovereignty for someone to fill their wallet,” raged a senior adviser to Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian leader himself suggested that Americans who opposed support for his country "start reading some World War II memoirs,” since any appeasement of Putin would only encourage him to invade more European countries.