With the US unable to broker peace in Ukraine and Europe lacking agency, China is quietly emerging as the superpower with all the cards

For a negotiated peace agreement, Putin has insisted on his demands that Ukraine give up ambitions to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, as well as land occupied by Russian forces. However, with the backing of top European leaders, Zelensky has rejected giving up Ukrainian land as a non-starter.

However, European allies who pushed back on the Trump administration’s agenda could argue that it is because of their solidarity with Zelensky that Trump did not go as far as they had feared to appease Putin and completely sell out Ukrainian interests.

Trump, Putin leave Ukraine war summit with no deal

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