It is not yet time for Ukraine to negotiate with Russia, contends U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, in an interview yesterday at the Carnegie Endowment think tank. He discerns that the time is not “ripe.” (https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/12/16/biden-foreign-policy-at-two-years-event-8006)
“We don’t know where this is going to end up. What we do know is that it’s our job to continue to sustain our military support to Ukraine, so they are in the best possible position on the battlefield, so that if and when the diplomacy is ripe, they will be in the best possible position at the negotiating table. That moment is not ripe now.”