Patrick Lawrence finds cause for cautious optimism in the 28-point peace plan. From Lawrence at theflautist.substack.com:
The Trump regime’s 28–point peace plan for Ukraine at last addresses Russia’s legitimate interests. The only losers, if negotiations win Moscow’s acceptance, will be the warmongers.
Maybe, at last. A wounded veteran, Kiev, n.d. (Still Miracle Photography (London), cc by SA 4.0/ Wikimedia Commons.)
28 NOVEMBER—All has been fluid and very few things clear since the Trump regime’s draft of a 28–point peace plan intended to settle the war in Ukraine was leaked (in varying versions) last week. The Europeans quickly put together a 19–point counter-draft they seem to think supersedes the Trump plan. The Ukrainians seem to think they negotiated a new document, based on the Europeans’ plan, with the United States in Geneva last weekend. There have been talks in the European capitals, talks in Kiev, talks on the sidelines of various multi-sided summits.
All manner of assertions and all manner of reporting have flowed in the course of these undertakings, as you may have noticed. The shared project is to subvert the Trump plan, which we must count a serious endeavor to address Russia’s interests in the cause of an enduring settlement, in favor of another that, in essence, allows the Kiev regime and its backers in London, Paris, and Berlin to continue pretending Moscow has no legitimate interests and, so, the war must go on.
It is important to pay attention to all these developments, but not overmuch. The Europeans and the Ukrainians have been prone to lots of huffing and puffing since the Trump regime began its efforts to bring the war to a close and restore relations with Russia to something resembling sanity. But the Euros and their Ukrainian client have never managed to blow anyone’s house down, and I do not see they have any chance of doing so now. This is simply the kind of thing in which the losers of a war indulge when they are unwilling to accept they are the losers.
Hopefully it stops before GI Zelensky mobilizes/press gangs women and children.
He does have a kung-fu grip on the shekel bucket.