11-24-2025, 07:14 PM
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-ukraine...?st=Xv3cup
A little bit of a breakdown of how the plan came to be. Whether it was an “American” or “Russian” plan, it certainly had a lot of Russian influence.
I think this administration wants to get a peace deal done, but doesn’t care much about the details. While I am not particularly sympathetic to the administration, and given prior Russian actions I don’t really trust a “peace deal” with Russia, there is something to be said to getting the fighting stopped, and then worrying about how you get the fighting not to start again. That seems to be what the administration did with the Gaza war. The difference between the Gaza war and the war in Ukraine is that the US had leverage over Israel and was willing to use it, and had Middle Eastern allies who had leverage over Hamas. I don’t think anyone really has leverage over Russia, and barring a major setback, Russia only seems to be willing to engage in a cease fire on its own terms.
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A little bit of a breakdown of how the plan came to be. Whether it was an “American” or “Russian” plan, it certainly had a lot of Russian influence.
I think this administration wants to get a peace deal done, but doesn’t care much about the details. While I am not particularly sympathetic to the administration, and given prior Russian actions I don’t really trust a “peace deal” with Russia, there is something to be said to getting the fighting stopped, and then worrying about how you get the fighting not to start again. That seems to be what the administration did with the Gaza war. The difference between the Gaza war and the war in Ukraine is that the US had leverage over Israel and was willing to use it, and had Middle Eastern allies who had leverage over Hamas. I don’t think anyone really has leverage over Russia, and barring a major setback, Russia only seems to be willing to engage in a cease fire on its own terms.
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