{"id":135601,"date":"2025-02-18T15:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T20:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/18\/at-ukraines-expense-us-and-russia-break-the-ice-in-riyadh-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T20:18:50","slug":"at-ukraines-expense-us-and-russia-break-the-ice-in-riyadh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/18\/at-ukraines-expense-us-and-russia-break-the-ice-in-riyadh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"At Ukraine&rsquo;s expense? US and Russia break the ice in Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Three years after Vladimir Putin\u2019s full-scale invasion of a sovereign state, what has he gained?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A path to normalisation with the United States and negotiations on Ukraine\u2014without the Ukrainians. Without the Europeans, either. Instead, Donald Trump is sending his Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to Saudi Arabia, along with fellow New York real estate mogul Steve Witkoff, who has swiftly pivoted into a Middle East envoy role.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Brussels is a long way from Riyadh. So why is retired General Keith Kellogg\u2014touted as Trump\u2019s steady hand on Ukraine\u2014meeting with EU leaders instead of leading the negotiations? We\u2019ll examine what lies at the heart of this potential deal with Putin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll also assess how far European powers progressed at Monday\u2019s emergency summit in Paris, hastily convened after JD Vance delivered a stark warning to allies at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend. How much leverage do Europe and the Ukrainians have when the continent\u2019s main security guarantor seems more inclined to talk to Moscow?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years after Vladimir Putin\u2019s full-scale invasion of a sovereign state, what has he gained?\u00a0 A path to normalisation with the United States and negotiations on Ukraine\u2014without the Ukrainians. Without the Europeans, either. Instead, Donald Trump is sending his Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to Saudi Arabia, along with fellow New York real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-135601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}