The question of when – and on what terms – to stop the fighting is already causing cracks to appear
Fraser Nelson | The Telegraph UK
A year after annexing Crimea, Vladimir Putin met various leaders involved to finalise the terms of what was, in effect, a surrender. There was dinner, with a large map of Ukraine in the middle of the table. At one point, Putin reached over and stabbed a fork on the eastern side of the map to show how much ground his troops had covered in the 16 hours they had all been talking. His gist: Agree to terms now, or things will get worse. No one in the West will help you. No one else cares.
I was told this story recently by a diplomat who saw it happen. Ukraine, he said, was helpless: Its military was then in no state to offer serious opposition. David Cameron and Barack Obama opted out of the negotiations – saying they clashed with the D-Day commemorations in Normandy – so talks were instead mediated by France and Germany. They let Putin stitch things up in a way that loosened Kyiv’s grip on Ukraine’s eastern territories. Continue reading
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