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The best path to peace is not talks with Putin, but helping Ukraine to win this war

The best path to peace is not talks with Putin, but helping Ukraine to win this war

There will come a time for negotiations – but calls to reach a deal with the Kremlin now are more wrong-headed than ever

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Timothy Garton Ash
Nov 25, 2022
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As we mark the end of the ninth month of the largest, most brutal war in Europe since 1945, the worst thing we can do for peace on our continent is to push for peace negotiations with Vladimir Putin. The best thing we can do for peace is to increase our military, economic and humanitarian support for Ukraine, until one day it can negotiate from a positi…

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