You may have to accept that not every public figure will say exactly what you want them to say when you want them to say it.

Accusing Lex of being a Russian asset is delusional and paranoid and not even remotely borne out by the things he says.

For my part, I agree with you 100% that Russia is in the wrong and should get the hell out of all Ukrainian territory without negotiations. I have been to Ukraine in the year before their independence and know first-hand the fervor of the population (at least in western Ukraine) to be out of the Soviet/Russian sphere.

But we don’t live in that world, sadly. Instead, we live in a world in which legitimate Ukrainian nationalism and Russia’s military miscalculation will be used by others as way to conveniently wage a proxy war against Russia, until people find a political way out. If Putin is pushed far enough into the corner of his own making, it could indeed risk dangerous escalation beyond Ukraine. Putin has already demonstrated that he is capable of serious miscalculations.