President Trump on Monday touted “huge progress” on talks to finish the Ukraine conflict, and Kyiv is likely prepared to make painful concessions to keep away from give up or U.S. abandonment. Nobody needs the conflict to finish greater than the Ukrainians who’re preventing and dying.
However the essential difficulty continues to be what sort of peace? So it’s price describing the situations that will create a peace with honor in Ukraine and deter a brand new conflict at any time when Vladimir Putin chooses to invade once more.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday described the U.S. peace supply as a “residing, respiratory doc,” and we welcome the purple pen to the unique 28-point plan that bent onerous towards Vladimir Putin. That doc would depart a neutered Ukraine that’s banned from associating with Western safety establishments and susceptible to a brand new invasion.
The overriding aim of any peace is letting Ukraine survive as an impartial nation that may decide its personal future. If its individuals need to align with Russia, so be it. However each indication is that they need to align with the West, together with the European Union and NATO.
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