They make a desolation and call it peace
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The Trump administration is overtly strong-arming Ukraine to accept a peace deal that would be very close to a unilateral surrender to Russia’s invasion of the country:
The United States has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to press it into agreeing to the framework of a U.S.-brokered peace deal, two people familiar with the matter said.
Washington has presented Ukraine with a 28-point plan, which endorses some of Russia’s principal demands in the war, including that Kyiv cede additional territory, curb the size of its military and be barred from joining NATO.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Kyiv was under greater pressure from Washington than during any previous peace discussions, and that the U.S. wanted Ukraine to sign a framework of the deal by next Thursday.
A delegation of senior U.S. military officials met with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Thursday. The U.S. ambassador in Ukraine and the army public affairs chief travelling with the delegation described the meeting as a success and said Washington sought an “aggressive timeline” for the signature of a document between the U.S. and Ukraine.
Zelenskiy, who held a phone call on Friday with the leaders of allies Britain, Germany and France, appeared careful not to reject the U.S. plan or to offend the Americans. . .
The 28-point, US-backed peace plan gives Russia de facto control over Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea; freezes the frontline in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia and creates a demilitarized zone between the current frontline and the border of Donetsk. . . .
The plan, a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters, includes terms that Ukrainian officials have previously dismissed as tantamount to surrender after their soldiers fended off a full-scale Russian invasion for nearly four years at huge cost.
Zelenskiy is an a nearly impossible situation here, as he’s “negotiating” against both Putin and his increasingly demented ally in the Oval Office, who soon enough will be claiming that he’s ended 17 wars, and that the failure to give him his Very Special Nobel Peace Prize is the greatest injustice of our or possibly any other time.