Ukraine has earned the right to shape its own future. Washington and Moscow are denying it that right

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The United States is intent on pushing through a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine that favours Moscow.

Michael Bociurkiw is a global affairs analyst, a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and founder of World Briefing report on Substack.

The so-called “peace process” unfolding around Ukraine looks less like a diplomatic pathway to ending Europe’s bloodiest war since 1945, and more like a stage-managed exercise by Washington and Moscow – with Kyiv watching from the platform as the train pulls away.

The metaphor is painfully apt. Picture a train barrelling down the track with the United States and Russia in the driver’s cabin. President Volodymyr Zelensky is sprinting alongside, desperately trying to jump on. Meanwhile, Europe is still at the ticket booth, fumbling fo