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

The second one I would point to is that these negotiations have been structured in a very... in a unique way, let's put it that way.

There are siloed, that is, you know, arrangements between certain parties that are not... where the others are not privy to them.

So, for example, there's a Ukraine...

Europe security guarantees document.

There's a Ukraine U.S.

security guarantees document.

This has all been reported.

None of it's been published yet, which is a good sign.

The confidentiality has been maintained.

There's an agreement about post-war Ukrainian reconstruction.

There's some US-Russia document.

And then there's this direct question about territorial compromise.

So my concern is that you don't have all the parties at the table at the same time talking about all the issues that are central to their concerns.

So, you know, it's all well and good if the UK and France and several other members of the so-called Coalition of the Willing have committed to deploying a force to Ukraine to, you know, I think they're calling it the multinational task force Ukraine after a ceasefire.

If Russia says that's completely unacceptable.

Right.

And we're going to keep fighting if that's the conditions, if that's what happens when there's a ceasefire, then it's not going to work.

And so I think getting all the issues on the table with all the parties at the table, and that would include the Europeans and the Americans, as well as the Russians and the Ukrainians, I think would be an important step.

So there's sort of a structure of the process problem that I see, in addition to the big open question about Russian willingness to compromise.

So, as a general matter, I think it's important to note that this is a fear that is common to

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