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trump plan to end ukraine war:

In the logic of Tooze's article, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not a radical overturning of the status quo ante, whereas the west's half-hearted attempts to help Ukraine restore the lines of 2022 is? It's an unusual use of the expression 'status quo.'

I'll say what many might think but hesitate to voice: Ukraine is currently losing the war, and the trend is negative unless drastic measures are taken. Debates over what constitutes loss or victory can be had, and yes, Ukraine’s survival so far is a big win. But even if Russia

I went to Kharkiv, Ukraine, and wrote about it for the London Review of Books lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

"Putin has already lost the war" is not a useful narrative in this stage of the war. While it's true that Russia has suffered significant loses, larger than any after WWII, that its economy has been set on the wrong path and that it doesn't occupy major Ukrainian population

I honestly don’t know, will Tesla sell more units in the UK by branding it the Tommy Robinson car? Maybe it’s sound marketing. ‘Drive to your next lynching in a Tesla.’ Could that work? Glad I don’t have to make the call.

I see huge avoidance of the dubious relationship between voters progressive on concept issues (gender, race, Palestine, asylum, climate) and voters progressive on economic issues (housing, health care, jobs, pay, transport, education) tinyurl.com/muaj6d96

On August 28, 1991, four days after the declaration of Ukraine's independence, Yeltsin's ally Rutskoy (Vice President of the russian federation) arrived in Kyiv with threats of a forcible revision of the borders. He demanded that the decision made a few days before be abandoned.

1.377 million Ukrainian soldiers, airmen and seafarers died fighting the Nazis within the Soviet armed forces in World War Two. The equivalent Russian figure, from a population three times the size, was 5.76 million.

As hurtful as it sounds, the United States is siding with Russia by demanding Ukrainian resources and threatening with action for refusal to comply. We are being robbed by the world's two largest nuclear powers. Welcome back to the 21st-century Molotov-Ribbentrop reality

Francis Farrell makes a crucial point - ‘ceding territory’ Russia has already captured is a whole different world from pressuring Ukraine to give up land it has successfully defended. We still don’t know which one the new, pro-Putin America will go for, although I can guess

For the record: Ukraine's extraordinarily generous, self-sacrificing peace offer to Russia, reported today by Reuters. In a nutshell: frozen conflict, frozen assets reuters.com/world/europe/u…