The recent US-Ukraine meeting in Jeddah represented an essential attempt to mend relations strained by Washington's earlier impatience and misjudgments. The US agreed to resume critical military and intelligence support in exchange for Ukraine's commitment to share its natural resource wealth and pursue a peace process. This is paramount as Ukraine faces ongoing aggression. The meeting was an opportunity to recalibrate U.S. support and showcase a united front against Russia, acknowledging the critical importance of well-equipped Ukrainian forces in the ongoing conflict.
At this stage of the crisis, it is important to be clear-sighted. The US-Ukraine meeting in Jeddah was a damage-control operation.
The US reversed its previous decisions in exchange for something Ukraine was ready to provide anyway: privileged access to Ukraine's natural resource wealth.
This week's meeting in Jeddah may have been an effort by the White House to re-balance the pressure scale and expose Putin's real intentions.
Ukraine is waging a defensive war and perhaps the White House has understood that the best leverage over Putin is powerful and well-equipped Ukrainian armed forces.
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