{"id":1331466,"date":"2025-12-11T11:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/imitation-of-peace-why-professional-diplomats-should-conduct-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:39:50","slug":"imitation-of-peace-why-professional-diplomats-should-conduct-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/imitation-of-peace-why-professional-diplomats-should-conduct-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Peace Talks: Why Only Real Diplomats Should Be at the Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why should professional diplomats lead negotiations? Because for the military \u2014 even former ones, as General Kellogg himself admitted (with all due respect) \u2014 \u201cthe last 10 meters are the hardest.\u201d<\/em> In other words, when you\u2019re trained to break through defences, not build agreements, the boundary between diplomacy and force becomes dangerously thin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If only two issues are resolved \u2014 in this case, the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from unoccupied Ukrainian territory and the division of control over the Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant \u2014 then everything else will supposedly fall into place.<\/p>\n

For people who approach negotiations like a business deal, this isn\u2019t a problem at all: you add figures here, subtract there, and calculate an acceptable profit margin.<\/p>\n

For diplomats, however, \u201cif everything is not agreed, nothing is agreed.\u201d<\/em> And this is not about the \u201clast 10 meters,\u201d but about something far more fundamental: an incorrectly chosen framework, a draft built entirely on Russian terms, and an inability to arrive at a comprehensive settlement because the approach was flawed from the outset.<\/p>\n\t\t