US Drafts Peace Plan For Ukraine—With Russia's Help?
The Financial Times highlights a new US-brokered 'peace plan' for Ukraine, which purportedly involved Russian input and demands 'major concessions' from Kyiv regarding land, troop numbers, and weaponry. (So, a 'peace plan' that sounds suspiciously like Russia's initial demands.) This sounds less like diplomacy and more like dictating terms from a position of 'concerned neutrality,' especially when
the US has previously insisted on Ukraine's sovereignty. Remember the Minsk agreements? Those US-backed 'peace deals' of 2014 and 2015, which also demanded concessions from Ukraine, effectively left the Donbas region in a perpetual state of conflict, ultimately paving the way for the full-scale invasion. Now, a decade later, after countless billions in aid and rhetoric about Ukrainian
self-determination, Washington once again appears to be pushing for Kyiv to give up territory. How many 'peace plans' does it take for the US to realize you can't negotiate with an aggressor by primarily ceding the victim's land?