Samuel Charap

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #240 – Samuel Charap on how a Ukraine ceasefire could accidentally set Europe up for a bigger war · 24 Mar 2026 podcast

I'm not saying this is necessarily grounds to conclude that there will be a compromise on that issue.

But for example, the Russians have said that, well, they don't have to have their military there

They could just have the National Guard and the Ukrainians have said, well, we could do this as a DMZ, even if we're, you know, so that Russians would retreat to a certain distance if our forces were pulled back.

So neither are saying that, you know, we must have 100 percent control and we're going to treat this like the rest of our country.

In Russia's case, of course, this is occupied Ukrainian territory.

But nonetheless, they have told themselves that it's theirs.

Yeah.

So those are all big and important issues, I think, that need to be resolved.

Frankly, I could imagine with some creative negotiation and all the parties at the table coming up with compromise solutions along these lines relating to all these issues, it will take a long time.

And it will require some well-structured and well-managed negotiations.

I mean, think back to how the Good Friday Accord was negotiated or the Dayton in Bosnia and so on.

So to get to the question of impediments.

So one major one, and I think we need to start here, is Russia's current optimism about the course of the war.

I don't think they are in a rush to end this because they think that time is on their side, regardless of what an objective military analyst might say.

And there are different views on that.

But I think it's clear that they view time is on their side and that they have the momentum to

and that therefore they're in no rush and they see their position improving in six months compared to where it is today.

So why, you know, make major compromises if you don't have to?

And particularly that pertains to territory where they have been slowly but surely gaining territory essentially for the last three years or even longer since the Ukrainian successful counteroffensive in the fall of 2022.

So that's the big one.

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