Luke Harding
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 24 Aug
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and they got together in October in Miami at Wyckoff's place and hammered out this deal, again in inverted commas.
And it was originally written in Russian, and I think I was the first person to point this out.
I speak Russian.
I read the text, and these kind of Russian bureaucratic phrases leapt out at me.
Things like...
One of the phrases was, it is expected that Russia will not attack any other country.
It is expected.
It's a very weird sort of passive, clunky formulation, unless you speak Russian, in which case you recognize immediately that it's ожидаться, ожидаться.
And this is the sort of bureaucratic thing chucked into newspaper reports, into negotiations, ожидаться.
Well, basically all of it.
It demands that Ukraine withdraws from...
the Donbass, Donetsk province, including areas in the north of Donetsk where I was recently, where hundreds of thousands of people live, civilians still, that Ukraine just withdraws, even though Russia's been unable to conquer since 2014.
There's also a veto over Ukraine's future security choices, saying that Ukraine can't join NATO, that there are restrictions on its EU membership, and...
There are no meaningful security guarantees from the American side.
It prohibits European peacekeepers.
I mean, it's bonkers.
It's just a Kremlin wish list.
For Russia, by Russia.
For Russia, by Russia, but also with the support of Donald J. Trump.
An actual peace deal.
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