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Will Trump end the Ukraine war in 100 days?

24 hours, 100 days, six months: While the targets shift, a key question is whether the end of the conflict will be peace or a sellout.  

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Much will depend on who blinks first in the forthcoming negotiations over Ukraine: Trump (right) or Putin, says the writer.

Much will depend on who blinks first in the forthcoming negotiations over Ukraine: Trump (right) or Putin, says the writer.

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Of all the major decisions facing US President-elect Donald Trump, few appear more urgent and consequential than his determination to end the war in Ukraine.

During the election campaign, Trump often dismissed the Ukraine war as a vicious little European conflict which, supposedly, only came about because outgoing President Joe Biden was weak, a conflict in which the US has no reason to remain engaged and one which needlessly consumes America’s already over-stretched financial resources.

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