It has been three years since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, killing hundreds of thousands of people and destroying huge portions of the country. Now, the Trump administration has signaled that it wants to end the war in Ukraine, but there are significant questions and deep concerns about Trump’s plans for how to end the fighting.
The Trump administration has signaled it wants Ukraine to pay back the U.S. for American financial support of the war. But there are fears now that the U.S. will impose a diplomatic agreement onto Ukraine that results in crushing economic debts, damaging the country, while doing little to permanently ending the conflict.
Drop Site’s Murtaza Hussain is joined by Rajan Menon, an expert on Ukraine and a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
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I'm not surprised how few likes and restacks this got. It doesn't offer anything different from mainstream press's distortion like Rajan saying that Russia is second most powerful country after the US for obvious reasons of portraying this as a rivalry between equal imperial powers so that more US military aid and fighting can be justified. There is no discussion of options for peace whatsoever despite the fact that it would be the Ukranian people who have the most to benefit from such a peace.