{"id":1531505,"date":"2025-04-21T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1531505"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:30:00","slug":"how-might-washingtons-relations-with-ukraine-russia-change-if-it-abandons-its-peace-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/how-might-washingtons-relations-with-ukraine-russia-change-if-it-abandons-its-peace-efforts\/1531505\/","title":{"rendered":"How Might Washington’s Relations With Ukraine & Russia Change If It Abandons Its Peace Efforts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Might Washington’s Relations With Ukraine & Russia Change If It Abandons Its Peace Efforts?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The US might cut off military aid to Ukraine while suspending its strategic resource talks with Russia…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0on Friday that the US might stop mediating an end to the\u00a0Ukrainian Conflict<\/a>\u00a0if it concludes within \u201ca matter of days\u201d that no peace deal is doable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That coincided with the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0reporting that Trump\u2019s envoy Steve Witkoff told them that \u201cPutin had been fixated on Ukrainian land in their discussions. He said that Russia might get some of the regions, but not all.\u201d<\/p>\n

This analysis\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0explained why it\u2019s so important for Russia to obtain full control over the disputed lands.<\/p>\n

If no breakthrough is achieved, such as the US coercing Ukraine into withdrawing from those regions or Russia agreeing to freeze this dimension of the conflict, then the US might indeed abandon its peace efforts. <\/strong>The question therefore arises of how that could change its relations with Ukraine and Russia. Beginning with the first, Trump and his team\u2019s explicitly expressed exhaustion with this conflict bodes ill for the scenario of the US continuing military support for Ukraine, which would please Russia.<\/p>\n

The Europeans would try to replace some of this lost aid<\/strong> in order to keep the conflict going in alignment with Zelensky\u2019s vision, but they\u2019d be unable to replace all of it and he might ultimately be forced into agreeing to worse terms than the US\u2019 if Russia successfully\u00a0expands its ground offensive<\/a>. At the same time, however, the US might also suspend its talks with Russia on the strategic resource deals that were supposed to serve as the centerpiece of their planned \u201cNew<\/a>\u00a0D\u00e9tente<\/a>\u201d as long as the conflict continues<\/p>\n

This balanced approach would be predicated on pressuring Ukraine and Russia into committing to compromises aimed at restoring the US-led peace talks since the first doesn\u2019t want to lose territory in other regions while the second is interested in shaping the post-conflict era in partnership with the US. These evidently aren\u2019t their top priorities, however, otherwise the land issue would have already been resolved one way or another and there wouldn\u2019t be any talk of the US abandoning its peace efforts.<\/p>\n

Other than the unlikely scenario of the US \u201cescalating to de-escalate\u201d on better terms for Ukraine, another comparatively more probable one exists but which is still less likely than the aforesaid, and that\u2019s the US discontinuing military support for Ukraine but continuing resource talks with Russia.<\/strong> These negotiations are connected to Ukraine since the US is seeking privileged terms from Russia in exchange for coercing Kiev into Moscow\u2019s demanded concessions but can still proceed even if that doesn\u2019t occur.<\/p>\n

The reason why this scenario is considered less likely than the balanced one described above is because some of the US\u2019 sanctions that impede the clinching of resource deals with Russia can\u2019t easily be lifted without first bringing about an end to the Ukrainian Conflict. Moreover, sanctions relief and the prospect of jointly shaping the post-conflict era are the only carrots that the US can dangle for incentivizing Russia to compromise on ending the conflict, which Trump wants it to do for solidifying his global legacy.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s therefore expected to at least temporarily suspend such talks with Russia for that reason in that scenario but might resume them if the conflict remains protracted with no clear diplomatic or military solution. That would make the most sense since he wouldn\u2019t prematurely give up the only means that the US has for incentivizing Russia to\u00a0compromise for peace<\/a>\u00a0but he also wouldn\u2019t lose the objective economic and strategic benefits that a resource deal would bring.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 04\/21\/2025 – 07:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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