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The West is pushing Ukraine toward concessions that will backfire

The Kyiv Independent
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French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Premier Donald Tusk met on Dec. 12 in Warsaw .

The two leaders also discussed the possibility of a European peacekeeping force in Ukraine — boots on the ground — in the event of a ceasefire.

The message from Warsaw is that the phrase “as long as it takes” now has a clear end goal: negotiating from a position of strength.

A bad peace for Ukraine would only exacerbate European insecurity.

Any deal that fails to deter Russia from attacking its neighbors will collapse, authors say.

Albert Einstein , often credited as the father of the nuclear bomb, is alleged to have said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”.