Exhausted by over three years of Russian attacks, Ukrainians are increasingly ready to accept unfair political compromises and harsh territorial concessions to end the war. Yet it’s far from clear that this hard choice will actually bring lasting peace.

As speculation mounts about another Trump-brokered peace plan for Ukraine, much of today’s debate feels like déjà vu. There are the same denunciations of “vested interests” in the conflict, the condemnations of warmongers, and the cries for “urgent talks.” In Ukraine, we didn’t just hear these arguments. We made them ourselves.

In summer 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea and the war in Donbass was already flaring, activists from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus issued a “New Zimmerwald” declaration criticizing the surge of chauvinism and xeno

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