LEurope’s red pen strokes will not last long. No sooner had French, British, and German diplomats annotated, crossed out, and rewrote America’s 28-point peace plan for Ukraine than Moscow ignored their corrections. “It’s completely counterproductive,” Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy adviser, said on Monday. Instead, the original American plan? “Completely acceptable”, with “many conditions” to suit the Kremlin.
We are very clear. As Donald Trump designs a peace plan that hands Crimea and Donbass to Russia, limits Ukraine’s army to 600,000, closes NATO’s doors to Kyiv and promises Moscow’s reintegration into the G8, the Kremlin…