“I think there’s a shift in the language coming from Ukrainians and President Zelensky, and that is talk of a peace forum. We need to have that. Obviously Swiss will be hosting that at some stage in the near future. But peace has to be two-sided that’s not only a one-way track, you need the tracks to meet at some stage, but when the conditions for that are suitable, I don’t know. To be honest, right now we have absolutely no political dialogue with Russia. And I don’t think we can, nor should we.”

Finnish President-elect Alexander Stubb talks about peace in Ukraine but rules out any dialogue with Russia. He says that peace has to be two-sided, yet hopes to bring it through the ‘Zelensky formula’ which totally ignores Russia’s interests. Logic has left the chat, they say.

As we repeatedly pointed out, the West doesn’t want to negotiate, it wants no equal relations with Russia (or any other non-Western state). It wants to dictate its will and continue to dominate.