Are charitable reading would be that that was not what was said.

It was not said that Ukraine would be better off it it stopped fighting. Only that Ukraine will be worse off the longer the war takes.

gee what a mystery. how about no more bloodshed for starters.

The bloodshed would not end. The Russians are hell bent on ethnic cleansing, as can be evidenced by Bucha and several other places I’ve actually been to.