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There must be no deal that will leave the people of war-torn Ukraine languishing in their misery.

The cost of delay is measured in lives lost, homes destroyed, and futures derailed. The dawn of peace must come sooner, not later.

The European leaders who gathered Monday at the White House alongside Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky left with vague promises of U.S. support but no guarantees of a breakthrough to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

“No deal was signed, but Ukraine wasn’t sold either.” That is roughly how global media described the recent meeting between Trump and Putin.

[I]f imajor powers … bully smaller and weaker nations [then] global trade will enter a total law-of-the-jungle era.

Russia’s exit on November 7, 2023, from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), with the U.S. and NATO partners suspending their participating in the treaty highlights real concerns.

What Putin asks is legitimization of Russian acquisition of the Crimean peninsula in 2014.

There may be something there for India as well since it is left facing a huge Trump tariff trauma.