FShould he waste his time – my time, readers’ time… – with the “28-point peace plan” that leaked last week and Washington wants Kyiv to sign before Thanksgiving? Everything there smells Russian. Language. The syntax. A pseudo-diplomatic turn of phrase, impossible in English but natural in the writing of the Kremlin apparatus. Copy and paste language elements taken from the office of Putin negotiator Kirill Dmitriev. The Dnieper written in Russian (Ukrainians say “Dnipro”) is as if it had been erased from the map of Ukraine.
That wasn’t a plan. That’s a wish list. The shopping list is determined by the Kremlin. Marco Rubio, America’s Secretary of State, said it, before pulling back and saying it again half-heartedly…
