Remember the man, some November evening, being told the dream he'd spent his whole life believing collapsing just a few streets away, while his dear leader ran around in his underpants demanding a pizza.
And whilst the train is stopped the opposition could rig it to go even faster when it's next turned back on meaning it'll soon catch up and exceed where it would've been if it just kept going
*If Russia stops fighting, there’s no more war for now.
If they win they know they can get away with it. And will start more wars. Why would they stop the Nazis didn't stop in ww2 after capturing Poland. Romania probably would be Russias the next target.
I have a hitch that the reason they don't want to give security guarantees is to not only please Putin, who wants to take us back to the era of territorial conquests, but also to use it even more as a leverage against Ukraine. You can just force them to do away with every job safety, to sell of their health care and transform it into the same horrible mess the US has, to dismantle their education system for cheap labor for the mines, or else the tanks are going in the country and Ukrainians will get tortured to death again for not speaking Russian.
While communicating this to the constituency: "my people, it is not a tram or a trolley as in other such trolley problems, it is just a lever that I must pull for the benefit of akk of our futures. It comes with great savings an a satisfying crunch!"