Why should the president of an invaded country have to negotiate with the invaders?

To save lives? And land (the sooner the negotiations start the more land there will be left for Ukraine. If the peace deal was signed at the very beginning, none of the land captured after 2022 would be lost)? Obviously Zelensky doesn't care about that, as long as he's pocketing those sweet sweet billions from USA..

They can leave and then it's all over.

But they aren't leaving, are they?

Putins been throwing prisoners on the front line.

So funny that you mentioned it :) There was so much coverage about Putin doing this, and very little when Zelensky started doing it.

He is notorious for locking up any vocal dissenter.....

And so is Zelensky. He disbanded every party he didn't like, as a matter of fact he is way more authoritarian dictator than Putin - even if you consider Russia's elections rigged, Zelensky won't hold any elections at all.

sooooo how are you not including him in this equation?

Feel free to include him.

It's just mind blowing for me how much Zelensky terrorizes millions of people, and he is still considered a good guy. I guess it's easy to glorify Hitler when you are not the one in Auschwitz.