"You won’t find reports on this in the New York Times" I dunno, seems like maybe a skill issue?

Russia is demanding Ukrainian land it doesn't currently hold as a condition for a ceasefire. That's the position Chivvis is arguing the US and Ukraine should accept.

Eleven months ago, Chivvis was calling for the outgoing Biden admin to impose tighter sanctions on Russian oil and gas, to create leverage for the incoming Trump admin to use in negotiations. I'm curious what he thinks has changed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

(Of course, the decision to cede Ukrainian territory would belong to the Ukrainian government, but the piece simply ignores the question of why such a decision would be in Ukraine's interest – or what steps the US should take to force Ukraine to accept an outcome against its own interest.)

Chivvis dances around the point a bit, but the actual policy argument seems to be that ceding to Russia parts of Ukrainian territory that the Russian military has failed to take to by force is a better alternative than applying further economic or military pressure to Russia.

You know who looked cooler? Paul Newman at the March on Washington