The Financial Times frets in an editorial posted overnight, that “the mood is shifting” in Washington and some Western capitals “from a determination that the war can end only with Russia’s army driven from Ukraine, to the reluctant recognition that a negotiated settlement that leaves the bulk of the country intact may be the best hope.” The editorial follows an Oct. 5 news report that some in the West are coming along to the idea that Ukraine must cede territory to Russia as a means to end the war.
“Ukraine’s prospects are clouded above all by the danger that Donald Trump wins next month’s U.S. election and seeks a swift end to the war, as he has pledged,” FT says further. “Some U.S. and European officials hope Trump could at least be dissuaded from forcing Kyiv into an adverse deal with Moscow that would pose grave risks for future European and American security.”
