Giving Putin anything will stick in the throat for ever

"Peace" negotiations between Ukraine and Russia have already moved to the notion that Vladimir Putin might get something out of his brutal, destructive invasion strategy. Already we've had President Zelensky offering to give up any idea of Nato membership and then he suggested a neutrality position for the country could be contemplated provided there were security guarantees. No doubt under pressure from the West, Zelensky might next be forced to acknnowledge that part of his beloved country might have to be sliced off and converted into an independent Russian enclave. Any deal that concedes anything to Putin will be obscene. He grabbed two provinces in Georgia and the West did nothing. Then he annexed Crimea and the West didn't stop him. Now he could end up with a chunk of eastern Ukraine in return for stopping the murder of Ukrainian people and destroying cities to rubble. Poor brave Zelensky wants to save his country from destruction and/or occupation and he has a responsibility to look at all the options. If he remains defiant to the end then more and more of his citizens will be killed. It's the terrible dilemma of a national leader. The trouble is he is only considering these concessions to Putin because he and his countrymen are fighting alone against Russia. The West has provided thousands of tons of weapons and ammunition but no troops, and no tanks and no fighter aircraft and definitely no resolution to take on Russia militarily because of the Third World War armageddon scenario. So Zelensky is on his own and has no choice but to seek a compromising peace deal. If this all ends up with Putin getting what he wants or at least a part of what he wants, and the war comes to an end and Putin never ends up in a war crimes court, then there is only one word that will sum up such a conclusion: shameful.