Because weakness plays into the hands of Evil. Dictators have always relied on the "Useful Idiots" in the West they can feed propaganda to and know they are ripe to believe it if it can be tailored to their existing bias and self-narrative. They are always trying to get the West to surrender and convince everyone that it only has itself to blame for a dictators(terrorists) aggression. It's always blame the victim and excuse the perpetrator. The dictator is always the real victim. If they can blame it all on the US government then they are all in.
It sounds so familiar on so many levels.
Give Eagler a break. He's a good guy. He's been issued bunch of weird info, packaged in good intentions and at least he's asking questions without being an a....le about it. If you want to make an impact, educate him. Insulting him does nobody anything good.
Eagler, nobody in UA wanted the war. If Russia was to withdraw from their territory, war would end right there and then.
All the bs floating around about "there is no such nation as ukraine, this has always been russia, people are russian just nazis control them, blah blah blah" is just that. BS. Russia wants to rebuild its empires. Mafia running the country distracts its populace from ever present poverty by giving them "we're powerful and fighting" line, and historically this always worked well in russia. In 2014 they did the same thing that they did in Azerbejdżan, Georgia and Modlova. Annexed portion of independent nation creating puppet state, unrecognized by anyone, controlled by russian army. Goal is simple - destabilize remaining nation, leave door open for invasion down the road, create excuses.
Putin is getting old and he wanted to put a crowing touch on his legacy. Instead he killed thousands and destroyed russia. No matter how the war ends, things will never be the same. And there is only one side at fault. There is no "secret agenda" here. Yes, lot of people are benefiting from it, but it wouldn't have been possible if he hasn't pulled the trigger.
He's also the only one who can make it stop. It only takes one sentence.