"If the Ukrainians were to stop fighting today, "they don't have any kind of security guarantee," Anne Applebaum, a staff writer at The Atlantic, explained last night. Without that, "their country is unviable-because who will want to live there or invest there if they know that the war is going to start, you know, next year or next month or in six months?" Ukraine needs a reason to believe that the war with Russia is "really, really over," she argued."
""The only way you achieve that is to put pressure not on Ukraine, but on Russia," Applebaum said. "It's almost as if the Trump administration doesn't want to admit, or can't understand, that the war only ends when the pressure is put on Russia." This is "the most obvious solution to the problem, and it's the one they just won't take," she noted."
Donald Trump’s administration is pressing Ukraine to accept a peace proposal that benefits Russia. Ukraine would lack credible security guarantees if fighting stopped, leaving the country unviable for residents and investors because the conflict could resume. A durable end to the war requires sustained pressure on Russia rather than on Ukraine. Pressuring Russia is presented as the most effective path to make Ukrainians believe the war is truly over. The administration’s approach emphasizes persuading Ukraine to concede instead of applying leverage to Russia, risking Ukraine’s security and economic future.
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