If you read the headlines in American and European newspapers, you'd conclude that the Alaska summit failed. It didn't. Washington changed course and abandoned its support for the ceasefire. The main outcome of the summit was that the push for a ceasefire agreement, an idea unfeasible for the Russian side, was withdrawn from the table. This will be a severe blow to Zelensky and Europe.> The agenda is a genuine peace agreement, not a ceasefire. Foreign policy experts are betting that the Russian economy is in such dire straits that the entire Russian enterprise could collapse if the West increased pressure on Russia. Even in dire circumstances, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the ruble, with mass unemployment, closed factories, and insane inflation, Boris Yeltsin, then president, found a way out, and Russia did not experience a civil war. It's noteworthy, as a recent Gallup poll in Ukraine shows, that despite Russian missile and drone attacks, the ...
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