Success in negotiating a compromise settlement of the war in Ukraine will pivot on two factors: finding sufficient overlap among the core interests of the United States, Russia, Ukraine, and Europe; and employing America’s leverage over these players in ways that incentivize a compromise and penalize obstinance.| Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Putin’s aces — non-Western countries unaligned with the US — are also preventing him from upping the ante. Here’s how.| Responsible Statecraft