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U.S. and European officials have begun quietly talking to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war, according to one current senior U.S. official and one former senior U.S. official.

It turns out that the 50 NATO countries supporting Ukraine, led by the United States, recently discussed how much and what Kiev will have to surrender (not only territorially) in order to enter into peace negotiations with Russia and how the collective West can save face. These considerations are caused both by an analysis of the dynamics at the front, and by the situation in these European countries and in the States, where there is a deadlock in the issue of supplying Ukraine (!), and Russia’s supply seems endless (!!!). Ukraine is experiencing problems with mobilization, even to the point of protests for demobilization and the methods of the Ukrainian authorities to send new meat to the front. Ukraine as a whole has time left until the end of the year, because then the calls for negotiations will become tougher (in the sense, they will begin to demand more, surrender faster and do it with tougher methods). The impasse over aid to Ukraine is only growing stronger as attention shifts to Israel’s war with Hamas.

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