This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman.

Today we're looking at what's being sold to the world as peace in Ukraine and what it looks like

from the standpoint of Ukrainians who are actually living through the war. The Trump administration's

28-point peace plan for Ukraine drafted behind closed doors by his real estate ally Steve Whitkoff

and a Russian sovereign wealth fund chief reads less like diplomacy and more like a

property deal. Russia gets the land, the U.S. takes its cut, Europe foots the bill, and Ukraine

is told to choose between surrendering now or surrendering later with little input in the process.

We began with Ukrainian political analyst Alexander Kisselov, a socialist from

Danyetsk and a researcher at Uppsala University. His recent writing argues that what's on the table is

not just peace at all, but an imperial carve-up, and that the Ukrainian left is fighting for what he

calls the least unjust peace, under conditions

of military exhaustion, political turmoil, dependency, and mounting pressure from competing

imperialisms in Washington and Moscow. We then go inside Ukraine with journalist Alyssa Ursula,

whose new report from Kiev captures what this peace plan

looks like through the eyes of people living and fighting there. She spoke with soldiers,

left intellectuals, and ordinary Ukrainians in bookstores on streets and during funeral processions.

Her piece shows how Trump's policies have already worsened the war, delaying air defenses, increasing civilian deaths, and deepening Ukrainian sense that their fate is being negotiated without them.

We'll also talk about what a real peace would look like, why Ukrainians fear being forced into a deal that rewards aggression,

and what international solidarity from the left ought to mean now?

Two perspectives that give a picture of a society under pressure resisting both Russian aggression and being treated as a bargaining chip by global powers.

All this when our program returns in just a moment.

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