Re: Putin’s Clever Trap: Why Trump’s Ukraine Ceasefire Proposal Won’t Work …

Putin’s Clever Trap: Why Trump’s Ukraine Ceasefire Proposal Won’t Work
 By Andrew Latham
 Published 23 hours ago
 https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/03/putins-clever-trap-why-trumps-ukraine-ceasefire-proposal-wont-work/
 When President Donald Trump’s administration recently proposed a 30-day
ceasefire in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s response was calculated and cagey
as one might expect. He did not reject it outright – that would have left
him open to charges that he, not Zelensky, is the principal impediment to
peace – but he conditioned Russia’s acceptance of any such ceasefire in a
way that made those negotiations practically impossible.
 He insisted, for example, that any ceasefire must address what he called
the “root causes” of the war, insisted that Western nations cease arming
Ukraine, and made abundantly clear that Russia’s recent territorial
acquisitions were not on the negotiating table.
 Putin did not table a counter-proposal as part of an iterated negotiation
that might lead to peace; he cleverly framed his response in a way that
was clearly calculated to buy time.
 With his forces steadily pushing forward in Kursk and the Donbas, Putin
simply has no reason to accept a ceasefire now, especially if that
ceasefire would buy time for the Ukrainians to reconstitute, rearm and dig in.
 Не че няма известни неточности, но има още за четене :)
 Дано пък Ивайло да наднича насам ;)