JULIAN MACFARLANE—The war that the US started so many years ago is clearly lost and now the US needs to withdraw— and pretend they had nothing to do with the fiasco. What it wants is Minsk 3.0, which leaves most “geographic Ukraine” intact— along with the investments of American companies like Blackrock.
It is therefore trying to shift responsibility to Europe, as if this was always Europe’s war instead of theirs. If Trump had wanted, he could have kept the peace by supporting Minsk 2.0 back when. Instead, he undermined that agreement, piling on sanctions on Russia and facilitating arms transfers that allowed Ukraine to build Europe’s strongest, best equipped and trained army to carry out a “final solution”, scheduled for 2022.
