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  So, I just finished reading Anne Applebaum's excellent piece  The War Won't End Until Putin Loses  in  " The Atlantic," and I couldn't agree more. Continuing to offer Putin some sort of "off-ramp" should not be the goal because, a) Putin doesn't  want  an off-ramp, and, b) the type of appeasement that such a strategy represents would only serve to encourage Putin to try again at a later date when his army would have had the time to regroup and rearm.  Applebaum makes clear that, contrary to French President Emmanuel Macron's misguided urging, Putin  should  be,  must  be, humiliated. It continues to baffle me how Macron, someone whose country knows firsthand what happens when dictators are appeased, can continue to try to help Putin "save face." Again, something Putin isn't looking for in the first place. Perhaps Macron needs remedial training in his country's twentieth century history.  Applebaum makes reference to comments ...