Truce or dare? Why Putin refused to play the ceasefire game
Balazs Barabas
How Russia’s President avoided a carefully laid trap The past week is sure to be remembered in diplomatic textbooks – perhaps in a chapter titled ‘How to Sabotage an Unwanted Ceasefire’. Every player in the conflict put on a masterclass in maneuvering, even Ukraine, whose diplomatic skills I usually doubt. But in Jeddah, desperate to escape US President Donald Trump’s iron grip on peace at all costs, they pulled a classic bait-and-switch. The Ukrainians handed Trump a piece of paper with a
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