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Back channel negotiations between US and Russia - without Ukraine. [1]

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Date: 2023-07-06

Back channel negotiations have been held between Russia and former US officials on a potential resolution of the war — without Ukrainian involvement, NBC News reports.

Richard Haas is the most prominent American spokesman, and the outlines of his proposed settlement strategy are a long-term ceasefire in place and a weak US security guarantee to Ukraine. I’ll let him explain:

“For over a year, the West has allowed Ukraine to define success and set the war aims of the West. This policy, regardless of whether it made sense at the outset of the war, has now run its course. It is unwise, because Ukraine’s goals are coming into conflict with other Western interests. And it is unsustainable, because the war’s costs are mounting, and Western publics and their governments are growing weary of providing ongoing support.”

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