STENT: Well, it's not that it's not in a position to dictate the endgame, but Ukraine is in a weaker position in as much as the United States is now not supporting Ukraine as the previous administration did. So part of this Senate bill that might be passed next week - it's veto-proof; I think it has 81 members supporting it - would be to punish countries that are still trading and buying Russian oil and to punish the people who helped the sanctions evasion. In December of '21, two treaties were presented to the U.S. and to NATO in the run-up to the war, and they essentially demanded that NATO return to the borders it had before the first enlargement when Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic joined.
Author: Marc Rivers
Published at: 2025-06-01 21:08:35
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