Writers venturing predictions generally prefer events to prove them right, not wrong. But I’d much rather miss the mark in this case than hit the bullseye.

Because I venture the opinion that negotiations in Geneva will not end the Ukraine war . Each of the two parties to that hideous conflict wants to avoid being the one that knocks over the furniture and walks out in a rage.

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Yet the minimum that Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to accept still seems more than the maximum Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky can agree to.

Ukraine’s negotiators are reportedly willing to go along with

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