Noah Rothman
Vance, today: "Russia can't expect to be given territory that they haven't even conquered yet." Reuters, one month ago: “The fastest way to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, said Witkoff, was to support a strategy that would give Russia ownership of four eastern Ukrainian regions
Christopher Miller
VP Vance to Fox News on Thursday: "We knew that Russia would ask for too much because the Russian perception of the war is on the ground, they're winning. And of course, the Ukrainians would like to do a ceasefire, in part, because things have not been going so well for the Ukrainians the last few months. And our attitude is: We don't want Ukraine to collapse. We obviously want Ukraine to remain a sovereign country. But Russia can't expect to be given territory that they haven't even conquered yet. And that is one of the things that they have put down in that initial peace plan." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0nQrKiZWRs