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Putin’s Clever Trap: Why Trump’s Ukraine Ceasefire Proposal Won’t Work

By Andrew Latham

Published 23 hours ago

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/03/putins-clever-trap-why-trumps-ukraine-ceasefire-proposal-wont-work/

When President Donald Trump’s administration recently proposed a 30-day 
ceasefire in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s response was calculated and cagey 
as one might expect. He did not reject it outright – that would have left 
him open to charges that he, not Zelensky, is the principal impediment to 
peace – but he conditioned Russia’s acceptance of any such ceasefire in a 
way that made those negotiations practically impossible.

He insisted, for example, that any ceasefire must address what he called 
the “root causes” of the war, insisted that Western nations cease arming 
Ukraine, and made abundantly clear that Russia’s recent territorial 
acquisitions were not on the negotiating table.

Putin did not table a counter-proposal as part of an iterated negotiation 
that might lead to peace; he cleverly framed his response in a way that 
was clearly calculated to buy time.

With his forces steadily pushing forward in Kursk and the Donbas, Putin 
simply has no reason to accept a ceasefire now, especially if that 
ceasefire would buy time for the Ukrainians to reconstitute, rearm and dig in.

Не че няма известни неточности, но има още за четене :)

Дано пък Ивайло да наднича насам ;)

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