“A diplomatic effort would seek to show them that Ukraine and the United States would be open to a negotiated settlement as long as there are no territorial concessions, making the point that it is Russia that refuses to end the war.”
Ukraine and the United States? Russia is not fighting against the U.S. The settlement will be between Ukraine and Russia and whether or not there will be territorial concessions or not will be decided by Ukraine not the U.S., which should have no role in the negotiations.
This whole article is about the U.S. and what it wants and the concerns and problems the drove the Russians to undertake the war don’t matter at all.
And what are they: 1. End NATO’s continuing encroachments on their border, i.e., Ukraine doesn’t join NATO, a hostile military alliance giving NATO a 4 minute window for a nuclear attack preventing a Russian retaliation (nice if you can get it, but the Russians won’t go for it). 2. Recognize Russia’s claim to the Crimea — it’s a done deal so end the sanctions (the West didn’t put sanctions on Israel for annexing parts of Syria and de facto taking over a third of the West Bank— no double standards). 3. Let the Russian speaking Donbas decide its own future since it was the revocation of the their national rights by the government in Kiev that led to the revolt there that started in 2014.
These are the issues Russia wants to negotiate about with Ukraine and these issues the U.S maintains are non-negotiable so who is it that “refuses to end the war?”
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