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International Negotiator, Peacebuilder, War-tested Leader・Founder @ParleyPolicy • Special Advisor @YCAPSjapan

Melbourne, Victoria
Joined October 2013
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The Kremlin will continue to contest the presence of third party military forces in Ukraine as part of postwar ceasefire monitoring arrangements, but it is important not to bend on this issue. Multinational forces serve three key functions in postwar environments: ...
The Coalition of the Willing is set to begin multinational exercises in preparation for postwar monitoring roles. The Russian Foreign Ministry has rebuked the move, calling it an effort to "maintain a foothold for confrontation with the Russian Federation." From 9-22 November...
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We must remember that Ukraine has tried to enter into agreements with Russia to safeguard peace and sovereignty in the past, including the 1994 Budapest Memorandum and Minsk I and II protocols.
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It is critical not to fall into the same traps of the past with the Kremlin in designing the new agreement aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine War.
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Ultimately, the Trump administration may have to resign itself to the "least worst" option. But it seems unlikely to do so without at least one final attempt at military escalation.
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While it was always prudent to fact check POTUS prior to the midterms, it will be even more important to do so going forward. Case in point: Russia and Ukraine are not close to a comprehensive peace agreement. Jared Kushner has previously indicated that the...
On 5 November, U.S. President Donald Trump touted progress on Russia-Ukraine negotiations, saying, "There's gonna be an agreement. It's gonna be a big agreement, and it's gonna involve more than Ukraine." Jared Kushner followed up that statement with an update expressing that...
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In other words, the war could end tonight if not for the Kremlin's territorial ambitions (which, by the way, has been the case since the outset of Russia's full scale invasion).
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As such, the White House's strategy of "carrots for Moscow, sticks for Kyiv" is backwards. If the White House really wanted the war to end, the pressure must be applied to the Kremlin.
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North Korean support for Russia’s war against Ukraine has not materialized in the way Kyiv had originally predicted this past summer. Ukraine captured international attention when it assessed that the Kremlin had requested upwards of 30,000 more troops to support an autumn...
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My latest for the @Diplomat_APAC recaps the phases of North Korean support in the war before explaining how the Kim Jong Un regime has likely shifted to its endgame strategy as it contemplates longer term foreign policy designs beyond its role in the Russia-Ukraine War.
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