Is There a Moratorium or a Neutralization?

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Proposals are essentially saying, we'd prefer to have this war go on rather than settle it. And my argument is that e pease might well work in this case, and we ought to give it a try. It should really be tried, and i think there's a good chance it will work. But to reject that means basically, you want to continue with the war, which is going to get complete. I guess there's no formula you can run equation algorithm. You just have to make the best decisions you can about whether to intervene or not. And then who knows? Ye.

In this conversation with the renowned Ohio State University political scientist John Mueller, author of The Stupidity of War, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War, and The Remnants of War, we discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and what we might expect from Putin’s Russia in the coming weeks, months, and years, along with Dr. Mueller’s outline for how to end the current conflict and compromise with Putin. That seems unlikely at this point, but the prospects of the tragedy of millions of war refugees pouring out of Ukraine into neighboring nations, along with the number killed already and likely to be killed as the fighting escalates, why not give negotiation and compromise a chance? Read John Mueller’s op-ed that accompanies this episode.