Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, commenting on US sanctions relief for Russia, says that “the decision to undo all of this, to block all of it, seems wrong to me.” 🇺🇸🇺🇦 The Russia-Ukraine war is now in its fifth year, and the argument that America should keep escalating economic pressure indefinitely without a clear path to ending it is becoming harder to make to the people actually paying the price for it. Over four years, the United States has sent well over $100 billion in aid to Ukraine, absorbed the economic shockwaves of European energy disruption. The sanctions can be reimposed overnight if Putin walks away from talks... they are leverage held in reserve, not leverage surrendered. What Trump is offering is something no one else has seriously tried in four years: a theory of how this war actually ends that does not require Russia to collapse first.