Achieving peace in Ukraine under the Trump administration faces significant challenges. Moscow insists on victory, refusing compromises such as territorial concessions or NATO guarantees for Ukraine.
Achieving peace in Ukraine will be a long-term effort. The best Western leaders can do in this situation is to leave behind the illusion that a quick fix is possible and the explicable but counterproductive fatigue. Only Western re-affirmed commitment to the cause can gradually alter the Kremlin’s calculus.
The last paragraph makes me think that this author may just be laying out the reasons for why suing for peace now is unrealistic, that is, the reasons for continuing the war and sending more weapons to Ukraine.
Basically, the article reads of as “all these concessions we have to give to russia [because we rejected previous, more generous peace terms] are too painful to go through, so let’s keep fighting”.
Yeah it’s sober all the way to the very end where the author starts bleating about the need to keep going. Realistically though, it’s pretty clear that the west can no longer prop up Ukraine materially while Ukraine lacks the manpower to keep going. So, people can keep talking about these re-affirmed commitments all they like, but it’s like me wishing for a pony.
The last paragraph makes me think that this author may just be laying out the reasons for why suing for peace now is unrealistic, that is, the reasons for continuing the war and sending more weapons to Ukraine.
Basically, the article reads of as “all these concessions we have to give to russia [because we rejected previous, more generous peace terms] are too painful to go through, so let’s keep fighting”.
Yeah it’s sober all the way to the very end where the author starts bleating about the need to keep going. Realistically though, it’s pretty clear that the west can no longer prop up Ukraine materially while Ukraine lacks the manpower to keep going. So, people can keep talking about these re-affirmed commitments all they like, but it’s like me wishing for a pony.