Teresita, here is some wisdom from the ages;

“There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of
others.”
- Niccolò Machiavelli

“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them
all they want.”
- General William T. Sherman

Your mistake is thinking that WWV can be avoided. It can but only at a cost greater then war. And I’m thinking that the dead will number in the billions this time.

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin
Georgian Soviet politician (1879 – 1953)
Uncle Joe should know.
So tell me, how will surrender lower the death toll? Socialists are famous for killing more of their citizens in peace then in war.
No, if you want to surrender, go ahead. Just don’t expect me and mine to. We will fight to the bitter end and you are the enemy.
What you fail to grasp is that the time to fight is NOW, while the body counts can be kept low. Avoiding war now, just makes it inevitable later, when the blood price will be much greater.
To re-state your question, do you want to fight now in a postage stamp sized country with a fraction of the population of a Major American city, or do you want to fight later, with Europe and it’s 400 million as the battlefield?
Putin has made war inevitable. Anyone who thinks otherwise is as delusional as Chamberlain.

“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, “Second Thoughts on James Burnham”
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 – 1950)