Andrey Illarionov

Now, something like this four-point plan could work.

However, and Andrei Illarionov knows this far better than I ever will, if all you do with Putin is make offers, he will stand back, fold his arms with a smirk, and wait for the next good offer to come along.

So Putin is unlikely to accept anything like this American approach as long as America keeps picking fights with Ukraine to show that it's an honest broker.

I kept thinking in history of Roosevelt picking a fight with Churchill in front of Stalin at Tehran to convince Stalin that he, Roosevelt, was an honest interlocutor.

just a sketch

for me for now.

And I have no doubt that Andrei Illarionov will enlighten us all.

Andrei always enlightens us.