Negotiation Dynamics: Manipulation or Strategy in US-Russia Peace Talks

The Trump administration insists there’s been real progress towards a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine, but is Donald Trump being played by Vladimir Putin?

Talks continue this week in Saudi Arabia, but it’s questionable whether Russia’s conditions can ever be accepted by the Ukrainians. 

Today, Matthew Sussex from the Centre for European Studies at the Australian National University on where the talks are up to and what Putin really wants.  

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Associate Professor Matthew Sussex, Centre for European Studies at the Australian National University