fromwww.theguardian.com
20 hours agoThe Russia-Ukraine peace deal is not a loss. Nor is it a victory | Stephen Wertheim
Under its terms, Ukraine would face no meaningful limit on its peacetime military, despite Russian attempts to impose draconian restrictions since 2022. (The only requirement, a cap of 600,000 personnel, probably exceeds the number of active-duty forces Ukraine would maintain anyway.) Moreover, Ukraine would receive a substantial security guarantee from the United States and Europe the strongest in history, even if short of a Nato-style commitment.
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