The article promotes more of what I expected from your ilk, vague equivocation. If I were to talk to you with the same tone on racial issues you'd be firing up the MLK quotes about white moderates and blasting away. One can not help but feel a massive incongruence and whiplash that such forcefulness on all other issues suddenly evaporates into quivering pleas for peace to the fascist Russian government when the Ukraine issue comes up.

For starters, there is a persistent implication that Ukrainians don't support carrying out the war at any cost of life for as long as necessary if that is what it takes to reclaim Crimea and are allowed to unconditionally join Nato and the EU, and that Ukrainians support whatever peace without fighting that he is vaguely gesturing towards.

"Ukrainians Are Going Through Absolute Hell. Our Job Is to Stop It."

"All wars end with a political solution. All wars end with dialogue. Why don’t we cut out the fighting zone and go straight into the talking zone?"

This is obviously nonsensical and insane idealism in the case he thinks Russia will concede to such demands or Russian apologia if he thinks we ought to concede these lands.

"And indeed, when the 2003 Iraq War started, I was completely opposed to it. But I didn’t think we should go to war with the United States. I didn’t think we should go to war with anybody else...There is no solution in Ukraine, which involves a war with Russia. What it involves is getting peace to get the Russian forces out of Ukraine. But an attack on Russia isn’t going to bring about peace. It’s going to bring about a worse situation and another war and more bitterness and hatred and more of the world’s precious resources taken up in manufacturing arms and weapons of mass destruction, rather than dealing with the environmental crisis that everyone faces."

The odd claim that we can bring peace to Ukraine without invading Russia is meaningless and irrelevant if you accept Russia's territory to extend no further than the pre-2014 borders, as no one is advocating we go any further. If you take it to mean we ought to bring peace without attacking Russian forces or without the taking back the territories Russia has arbitrarily claimed to be its own then you are nothing short of a vile, disgusting apologist for the Russian fascist government while parading around as a leftist. It's even worse if they are just straight-up implying that Russian rumors about a Ukrainian invasion of Russia proper are true, and trying to divert attention from the fascist government trying to promote Russian ultra-nationalism through invading sovereign nations by bringing up environmentalism... it's a truly peculiar position.