If it’s ‘our war,’ then we have a role to play in the peace
We can’t just send weapons to Ukraine — the US has to be willing to help steer the negotiations, too.
Marcus Stanley is the Advocacy Director of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Prior to joining the Quincy Institute, he spent a decade at Americans for Financial Reform. He has a PhD in public policy from Harvard, with a focus on economics.
We can’t just send weapons to Ukraine — the US has to be willing to help steer the negotiations, too.
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If not they could bleed the Russian people, impact the global economy, and fuel long-term conflict on the ground.