Leonid Ragozin

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Those who set it on a path to full-scale war with Russia did.

FILE - Former President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower, on Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

US securocrats pushed for expansionist policies in the 1990s that set the West and Russia on a path of confrontation.

President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrive for a news conference in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The Global South is not buying the Ukrainian claim to colonial victimhood.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine is seen during the Summit on Peace in Ukraine, in Stansstad, Switzerland, June 16, 2024 [Urs Flueeler/Reuters]

Brinkmanship in the war in Ukraine might be nearing its natural limits; this could pave the way for diplomacy.

Vladimir Putin. He is pictured inside a Russian Orthodox Church

Even if some Russians blame their president for failing to foil the attack, they have no other security guarantor.

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers his address in Moscow on March 23

The Russian presidential election outcome was expected and won’t change the Russian status quo; the US election could.

Russian presidential candidate and incumbent President Vladimir Putin speaks at his election campaign headquarters, after polling stations closed on the final day of the presidential election in Moscow, Russia, March 17, 2024. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

The Russian opposition doesn’t have the capacity to mobilise on the ground, but there is an alternative path.

A hearse, which reportedly transports a coffin with the body of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, is parked outside the Soothe My Sorrows church before a funeral service and farewell ceremony in Moscow, Russia, March 1, 2024

The late Russian opposition politician had a unifying spirit that threatened the beneficiaries of conflict.

A woman holds a portrait of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Feb. 16

His interview with Tucker Carlson reveals how he envisions negotiations and peace.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an interview with U.S. television host Tucker Carlson in Moscow, Russia February 6, 2024. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.