Should Zelensky negotiate with Putin?
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The Times
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🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The head of Ukraine’s military says the war is at a stalemate. Meanwhile, Western attention is shifting to the Israel-Gaza conflict. So is a military victory off the table and should President Zelensky start negotiating with President Putin?
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Guest: Mark Galeotti, historian, Sunday Times contributor and author of Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine.
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| 0:00.0 | On the 24th of February, when Russia invaded our country, the world gave us three days. |
| 0:13.0 | Some European countries who really believed in us |
| 0:17.0 | they said one month, |
| 0:19.0 | now it's almost two years, |
| 0:21.0 | now initiative in our hands. |
| 0:24.0 | President Zelenski's just returned from another trip to the US |
| 0:30.0 | where he was hoping to rally support. |
| 0:33.0 | He's insisting that the war in Ukraine hasn't reached a stalemate, |
| 0:38.0 | but as the much-anticipated spring offensive slipped summer, and now autumn, not much seems to be changing on the ground. |
| 0:49.0 | World leaders believe that it's a frozen conflict and that it's really arguable |
| 0:55.1 | whether Ukraine can really win. |
| 0:57.1 | Even the head of the Ukrainian military |
| 1:00.5 | says that they've only gained about 10 miles during the counter-offensive. |
| 1:06.0 | Meanwhile, some of Ukraine's Western allies are starting to show signs of fatigue. |
| 1:13.0 | The majority does not support additional financial assistance to Ukraine. |
| 1:17.0 | The last time we took a clean vote on Ukraine funding, |
| 1:20.0 | there were 101 Republicans who voted yes, there were 117 Republicans who voted no. |
| 1:26.0 | Polls down in the United Kingdom, United States and Germany suggests that the willingness to support |
| 1:30.7 | Ukraine against Russia's invasion is falling among its allies. |
| 1:35.0 | Allies in Europe, in particular in the United States, have their own domestic political situations to deal with. |
| 1:40.0 | A lot of these countries are running down their own stockpiles of weapons and all of these other things that are on politicians mind. |
| 1:47.0 | Just as support for Ukraine was already becoming strained, the world is now gripped by another war in the Middle East |
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