Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Snider
“merican negotiators have been negotiating on separate tracks with Ukraine and Russia in the hope that those two tracks will eventually converge. Despite President Donald Trump’s recent statement that the two sides are ‘maybe very close’ to a deal, and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s evaluation that a plan is ’90 percent ready,’ the two sides seem to be moving no closer together. In negotiating, the Ukrainian and European sides may be hoping to highlight that it is Russia that is saying no. And there is plenty in — and not in — their latest position that Russia will say no to. But, incoherently, Europe seems to have negotiated itself into a corner from which Russia doesn’t have to be the one to say no because Europe will.” (01/16/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/russia-wont-have-to-say-no-europe-will/