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- To end the war, some argue that Ukraine must make difficult territorial concessions to Russia.
- But making the victim give up land would reward the aggressor, showing that invasions work.
- Forcing Russia to pay for its destruction would give Ukraine more leverage to achieve lasting peace.
The desire for peace in Ukraine is perfectly understandable and, at least among those with any decency, universal.
But among a subset of those who identify as "antiwar," a reasonable skepticism of official claims from Washington has warped into something that resembles imperialism: An insistence that the United States quit fulfilling Kyiv's demands for weapons and, as a great power, effectively impose peace through American betrayal.