EU countries have plenty of things they can offer, like recognition of Russian territorial claims, lifting of sanctions and improved economic ties, conceding to Russian security desires like agreeing not to continue to expand NATO, etc. The problem is that starting with the Bush era, westoids developed a “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” brainrot mentality where all their self-created rivals they deem “terrorists” and treat it as morally reprehensible to concede anything to them, and all negotiations/agreements must necessarily concede something on both sides, and so that just makes negotiations fundamentally impossible. The western stance is that they should always refuse to negotiate and those who don’t accept western demands should be met with war, sanctions, coups, etc, until they do. Even Kennedy agreed to make concessions to the USSR at times for peace, but such a thing is inherently painted as immoral and makes one as “Putin apologist” if one thinks that the US and EU should be willing to have negotiations with Russia. Western countries claim Russia doesn’t want “serious negotiation” terms but then their “deals” they offer are always basically “Russia totally surrender and we give Russia nothing.”