The economic crisis caused by corona and now the war is hurting his business, he also wanted to end lockdowns earlier.Because he thinks, he is spreading his wisdom and his wise words will cause world to dodge WW3.
But his analogy is wrong appeasement strategy never works. It didn't worked with Hitler, won't work with Putin.
2008 Georgia, 2014 Crimea, Donbass, Lugansk, 2022 rest of the Ukraine. Even if he takes all of Ukraine, he would set eyes on a new country. He has to be stopped
Now many western countries truggling to produce electricity will hurt his core business when tesla sales plummet hence the talks of peace and ending conflic as fast as possible etc.
He is a businessman throught and he is good at it. He neither cares about Ukraine nor Russia.