Donald Trump is offering Ukraine what many people are saying is the world’s worst peace deal.

The deal on offer, seemingly covered in Russian fingerprints , is a bad deal for Ukraine. It cedes large swathes of Ukrainian land – both territory Russia has captured and that it doesn’t yet have, such as western Donetsk. It leaves Ukraine highly vulnerable to a Russian return in future, a limit on its armed forces of 600,000 troops (it currently has an army of around 900,000), the loss of the “Fortress Belt” Russia has been unable to capture , and no foreign troops on its soil or NATO membership or NATO troops on its soil.

And all this in exchange for a weak Russian commitment that “it is expected not [to] invade neighbouring countries”. If you think that sounds like entry-level stakes for

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