Why the West keeps missing the point on Russia

In early June, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky published an open letter to Vladimir Putin proposing a face-to-face meeting to end a war now in its fifth year. Putin’s reply was that talks were pointless unless Ukrainian forces first withdrew from Russian-occupied territory and Kyiv dropped its bid to join NATO. It was a small exchange […]

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