Compared to the era before ww1/ww1 it’s utopian.

The world is very complex and things are rarely perfect. We make incremental progress aiming for ideals, but still dealing with the world as it is.

Incremental progress would be a peace negotiation which brings both nations back to the realm of economic exchange, and an end to the senseless mass murder of innocents.

>but my ww1!

Its the 21st Century, we are decades removed from that era.

>Incremental progress would be a peace negotiation which brings both nations back to the realm of economic exchange, and an end to the senseless mass murder of innocents.

Again you don't understand what you talking about. There are no negotiations. At all. There is only a proposition for Ukraine to capitulate to Russia: the reduction of the Ukrainian army by more than half, the near-legal recognition of the captured territories as Russian, and so on.

All negotiations benign with a proposition. And as we can see, the Ukrainians have their counter proposition.

Such is the nature of business, and war is the dirtiest business of them all.