Rapprochement between the US and Russia offers only bleak prospects for Ukraine and Europe

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Rapprochement between the US and Russia offers only bleak prospects for Ukraine and Europe

If a dictated peace were to be imposed on Ukraine, the most obvious economic implication for the rest of Europe would presumably be less eagerness among foreign investors to invest in Central and South Eastern Europe. A dictated peace settlement in Ukraine on terms favourable to Russia, combined with an American withdrawal from NATO member states in Eastern Europe and the de facto abolition of the US security guarantee for Europe—in place since …