The three leading “Coalition of the Willing” partners met today at #10 Downing Street in London. U.K.’s Keir Starmer, France’s Emmanuel Macron, and Germany’s Friedrich Merz were there, as was Ukraine’s acting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to give approval for the next attempt to keep him in power and the war going.
Afterwards, Zelenskyy announced that they will share the new agenda—tagged a “20-point” plan—with Washington on Dec. 9. The key poison pill designed to sabotage any possible end to the fighting appears to be the coalition’s reiterated insistence that there is no room for yielding any territory. Zelenskyy declared once again that Ukraine cannot give up any land, and then he offered: “The mood of the Americans, in principle, is for finding a compromise. Of course, there are complex issues related to the territory, and a compromise has not yet been found there.”
