ANDREW NEIL: There's only one grim conclusion from the latest Saudi talks: Trump isn't pursuing a just peace for Ukraine - but an unjust victory for Russia
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ANDREW NEIL: There's only one grim conclusion from the latest Saudi talks: Trump isn't pursuing a just peace for Ukraine - but an unjust victory for Russia

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It is not often one interview causes deep anxiety in Kyiv and general dismay across Europe’s major capitals. All this about a former KGB thug who rules Russia with a totalitarian grip, who has snuffed out any semblance of democracy and who dispatches those dissenters not murdered by state- Rather than dwelling on any of that, Witkoff regaled us with stories of how Putin gave him a portrait of Trump he’d commissioned from Russia’s ‘leading artist’ as a gift for the US President. Witkoff at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in October 2024 But Ukraine and the Nato allies, including America under Joe Biden, have rightly condemned these votes as ‘illegal’ and a ‘sham’. As Witkoff’s praise for Putin poured out, he dismissed Keir Starmer’s efforts to spearhead a European peacekeeping force for Ukraine as a vainglorious effort ‘to be like Winston Churchill’. For Europe, watching the latest round of peace talks in Saudi Arabia this week without any European participation, there is only one grim conclusion from Witkoff’s witterings: Trump sees Ukraine as the enemy from which concessions amounting to conditional surrender must be wrung, while Russia is America’s new ally-to-be, whose grievances have justified its conquests – and which must now be placated as precursor to a new Russo-American alliance.

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