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Your entire argument is "diplomacy doesn't exist". It's not particularly solid
You don't get to talk to Putin's ambassador until you have a plan to deal with his general.
That's extremely untrue, there's plenty of evidence of negotiations in 2022 between Russia and Ukraine getting pretty far until Boris Johnson got involved. Both countries have been willing to negotiate, but the narrative pushed in the west has been that of total war: "the war will end with the defeat of Russia or it won't end". Unsurprisingly to anyone with a grasp of geopolitics, the war will end with negotiations, as so-called "tankies" have been urging to do for the past 3 years of meat grinder.
I do not want to go to ww3, you don't either. Funding Rheinmetall isn't the way to avoid it
The only way to avoid war is by being able to make it too costly for Russia to conduct it. That is the only thing that will keep them at the table.
Being ready and able to fight is the only way to ensure you won't have to.
This "negotiate from a position of weakness" argument you are raising is the stupidest thing I've read in the past 24 hours.