Friday, July 11, 2025

Opinion: The sooner Americans leave Ukraine talks, the better

 Ukrainian Dialog citing Russian opposition journalist Michael Nacke:

"The only way to achieve peace is to increase support for Ukraine and sanctions pressure until Putin understands that he cannot achieve his goals militarily or is beaten down by his own entourage or soldiers. Perhaps the Trump administration has realized this, but does not want to deal with it, since it is more difficult than wagging their tongues in the Kremlin and Riyadh, so they decided to withdraw from the negotiations," said Michael Nacke. He wrote about this on his YouTube channel.

"Overall, not the worst scenario. Honestly, all these pseudo-negotiations are rocking everyone on emotional swings and preventing Ukraine from fighting. Fearing to earn Trump's wrath, Kyiv, as I see it, is holding back a lot in both strikes and operations. Russia does whatever it wants, so I have long been in favor of Trump's withdrawal from the negotiation process.

At the same time, Naki noted: "I know that there are people who think that everything can still change, that the US can start allocating new aid packages to Ukraine or imposing sanctions against the Russian Federation, but this is not the case. Under Trump, there will be no support for Kyiv, nor pressure on Putin, so the sooner the US leaves the negotiations, the better. They are distracting too much attention to themselves."

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