Russia is conducting all negotiations on ending the Ukraine conflict exclusively with President Trump

https://sputnikglobe.com/20251203/russia-now-negotiates-ukraine-settlement-only-with-us-1123220789.html 

Comment by PCR:

I will mention some of the difficulties in the way of a successful negotiation. In the United States, the conflict is valuable to the military security complex because it produces profits. Neither the military security complex nor the American neoconservatives want to lose their Russian enemy, the neoconservatives foreign policy doctrine is one of American hegemony and it was in pursuit of this goal that the United States initiated the conflict in Ukraine. In Europe, the European union is under pressure and is fracturing. The Russian threat serves to unify Europe against a common threat. Therefore, from the stand point of the advocates of the European Union, the conflict in Ukraine serves to convince the European public to stay United within the European Union in order to be able to confront Russia. Within Russia, the Russian nationalist are opposed to any concessions by Putin that would sacrifice what president Putin has declared to be the conditions for a settlement. The settlement that Putin intends goes beyond ending the conflict. Putin wants a settlement that amounts to a mutual security agreement between the West and Russia, which would make unnecessary the presence of NATO on Russia’s borders. The Russian nationalists will insist on these conditions. The Russian liberals who are interested in again being incorporated into the western system, are willing for Putin to make concessions in order that they can renew their western relationships. Perhaps these conflicting interests are the reason the negotiations are now confined to Putin and Trump.

Previously, I made the point that a successful agreement would have to be worked out between Putin and Trump and imposed on the other parties. It seems that this is the only way an agreement can be reached.