David Sanger: Overall Sense After Alaska Meeting, Is the Negotiation Is ‘Going Backwards’

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SANGER: “But the overall sense I get eight days after we all left Anchorage for that summit meeting between President Putin and President Trump is that, if anything, this negotiation is going backwards now. Just think about it. President gave up on a cease-fire. The president said that the Russians were willing to have a peacekeeping force, a western peacekeeping force inside Ukraine. They now say they don‘t want NATO countries to be there and Russia has to be part of any security solution. There appear to be no real negotiations going on. So, Putin got a lot of what he wanted, which is buying time."