All wars end sometime, somehow. Formally, legally, they need a treaty between the belligerent parties to set out the terms on which the fighting will end and when the post-war period will be conducted.
Ukraine is a long way from that point. But the US is trying to get it there – quickly – by applying something close to maximum pressure on the nation to come to terms with the invader.
The US has justified its meeting with Russia as marking the first step towards creating the conditions for a peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine.
It argues that the war is going nowhere, and somebody has to step in and try something different.
This is something different -…