Yes what and also who? Who is encouraging him? Supposedly 7 days into the invasion in ‘22 Lavrov took a neutrality deal to Putin where Z would confirm they wouldn’t join NATO that was approved. But then walked it back, supposedly at the behest of the UK and US. Why now though? Rubio is not Blinken, Gabbard isn’t Sullivan. They (Rubio/Gabbard) are seemingly interested in ending the war, and Zelensky knows that. I understand what prompted him walking away from peace in ‘22, but I struggle to identify why he would walk away now. It’s not just the US that needs to open conversations with Russia. Europe needs to as well, possibly independently of us. Sunk cost fallacy? 

Speaking of independence, the electorate needs to think about why we do not engage in diplomacy with our enemies. What is diplomacy if we only talk at our “allies”. We create narratives not conversation. Why? If we have peace we can leverage some astonishing new technology for wealth. Wealth of nations won’t come from expanding our borders. Wealth isn’t just amber waves of grain anymore.

The convenience of reductive thinking is it creates absolutes and certainty which in turn helps create cult like following, the hazard though is what we’re seeing now.