The war in Ukraine is back in the news. That makes it an opportune time to publish video from a recent discussion among some of the contributors to the recent forum here in response to this prompt:
Trump wants to end the war in Ukraine. Is there any way for him to do it without severely setting back American interests? How? If not, what’s your proposed alternative and what are the advantages and risks or costs involved?
As a reminder, or in case you missed them, the responses were:
Ukraine Is Lost. But NATO Can Rebuild and Recover, Goldman Says, by David P. Goldman.
“Partitioned, Neutral Ukraine” Could Draw Russia Away From China, Green Says, by Dominic Green.
A “Neutral” Ukraine Is a Nonstarter, Jacoby Says, by Tamar Jacoby.
Can Trump Broker a Ukraine Peace? Best outcome he can hope for is an armistice, writes Adrian Karatnycky, by Adrian Karatnycky.
We were able to get Green, Jacoby, and myself on the video. Goldman is present by voice. The three of them were in Europe. I was in Boston. Let’s hear it for technological progress; this sort of transatlantic video conference used to be the stuff of science fiction or big corporate or governbment budgets. Now it is a piece of cake. Karatnycky couldn’t make it but his article is excellent and perhaps we’ll get him on video discussing this topic sometime in the future.
I’m somewhat conflict-averse (though you might not know it from my writing), and I have high regard for these participants, so it got a little livelier than maybe my ideal. I have a lot more experience with text than with video and audio. Yet the audience is a lot larger for video and audio, and the entry barriers keep getting lower, so we are experimenting and, I hope, learning with an eye toward expanding our reach. I’m grateful to those readers who joined for the original Zoom and to Green and Jacoby and Goldman for being such good sports about it.
Jacoby is the Kyiv-based director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s New Ukraine Project. Green, DrDominicGreen on X, is a Wall Street Journal contributor, a Washington Examiner columnist, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Goldman is deputy editor of Asia Times and a research fellow at the Corvinus Institute of Advanced Studies (Budapest).
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