ukrthrowaway

It's on everyone who can take actions to prevent it.

If you take as an assumption that you can't negotiate with them then it's you who isn't willing to negotiate not them.

It was many weeks and the US basically said they would not even consider the main points at issue.

He also said that he wanted to negotiate a peace agreement which excludes NATO from Ukraine. Why not take that statement at face value too?

No, not if it significantly affects others, as it would in this case, by risking a nuclear war.

Should countries be able to get nuclear weapons just because they want them?