Professor Crane, you have written widely about the need to end the stalemate in Ukraine and bring this conflict to a close, as well as options for a or a multinational court to complement efforts to produce a Special Tribunal for Ukraine. But, to start—where are we in this conflict, on all fronts? : Well there’s a lot of distrust, and disappointment, as well as bad feelings in the air that the leaders of Ukraine and Russia are against the concept of diplomacy. But because of this critical mass of dust in the air, regardless of how this ends—Zelenskyy can’t lose this conflict, and Putin can’t win.
And that is a very interesting approach, trying to bring this tragedy that was caused by the Russian Federation to end in a way that there is enough balance, that there is a pathway towards a more trustful coexistence because Ukraine isn’t going away and nor is Russia. So where does that leave us? The ideal world will be that Ukraine pushes Russian Federation forces out of the Donbas region, perhaps Ukraine; Zelenskyy’s . And of course, that is all fatal to Putin personally, because as a dictator, he cannot lose; if he does then he is finished.
So that’s why I’m saying that Zelenskyy can’t lose. Putin can’t win, but also Putin can’t lose as well. So a pathway forward should Putin be not in the picture will be just again to stabilize enough to where we don’t slip them down a nuclear war circumstance.
The challenge here is that the fact that Putin gone could a.
