Why forcing Ukraine into a peace deal won’t work

More and more voices in the US and Europe say it’s time to push Ukraine into a peace deal. With the diesel deal and Trump’s talk of easing sanctions on Russia, the pressure is growing. But the argument rests on the assumption that there is a deal on the table that Ukraine could take if it wanted to — and there isn't.

In this video, I describe what the two sides actually say their conditions for peace are, and why it's so hard to see any peace deal coming out of the negotiations.

00:00 The pressure on Ukraine to make a deal
00:56 Ukraine’s war aims
03:34 Russia’s war aims
05:25 Russia’s demands on NATO
06:30 The two positions side by side
08:30 Just a negotiation tactic?
09:24 Who is negotiating with whom?
11:45 How the war will continue