“Russian troops are encircling Ukraine from 3 facets. In Washington and Brussels, there are warnings of crushing sanctions if Vladimir Putin orders an invasion. Embassy households — each American and Russian — are being evacuated from Kyiv,” the New York Occasions experiences.
“But there are nonetheless diplomatic choices — ‘offramps’ within the lingo of the negotiators — and within the subsequent a number of days the Biden management and NATO are anticipated to reply, in writing, to Mr. Putin’s far-reaching calls for.”
“The query is whether or not there may be actual possible for compromise in 3 distinct spaces: Russia’s call for for ironclad assurances that Ukraine gained’t input NATO; that NATO gained’t additional make bigger; and that Russia can by hook or by crook repair some approximation of its sphere of affect within the area to sooner than the strategic map of Europe used to be redrawn within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.”
