Remember my complaint that the US wasn't meeting with Russian diplomats to try and solve this war? Many experts agree with me!

 At the height of the Cold War when we had thousands of troops in Germany reading to stop a Soviet push, we still talked to the Soviet Union.

Later when we had the war on terror we talked to the Russians. Now?  Now we don't and the world is suffering.  Why? Because of optics.  The powers that be have been so successful in stirring the non-thinking masses that they can't back away from this imaginary hardline position they've adopted.

Regardless even those that were beating the war drums are seeing the light.