A deal giving Moscow a slice of Ukrainian territory and sanctions relief could be on the table in weeks \u2013 yet European leaders are busy squabbling<\/p>\n
Donald Trump has lost substantial power over domestic policy after last week\u2019s devastating midterm losses, but his ability to cement his legacy by upending US foreign policy remains largely intact.<\/p>\n
There is every reason to fear a \u201dgreat betrayal\u201d of Ukraine in the coming weeks, one that would reward Vladimir Putin for Russia\u2019s war of aggression against Kyiv, and also do lasting damage to the European security order. Yet lilliputian European leaders are too busy squabbling <\/a>over who should represent them in future peace talks<\/a> to focus on how to prevent a sellout. Despite fundamental European interests being at stake in this week\u2019s three-way US-Russia-Ukraine negotiations in Abu Dhabi, Europe is relegated to a side room, represented by a posse of officials from the UK, France, Germany, the EU and Nato.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A deal giving Moscow a slice of Ukrainian territory and sanctions relief could be on the table in weeks \u2013 yet European leaders are busy squabbling Donald Trump has lost substantial power over domestic policy after last week\u2019s devastating midterm losses, but his ability to cement his legacy by upending US foreign policy remains largely … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}