As the Greek dramatist Aeschylus famously suggested, “The first casualty of war is the truth.” When reality collapses, justice collapses alongside it, and any fracture in justice inevitably reshapes the future. U.S. President Donald Trump’s 28-point peace proposal is built precisely on this erosion of reality. The war’s inherent distortions, shifting power balances, weakened norms and suspended legality underlie the plan’s geopolitical architecture.
Geography does not start wars; yet the nature of war and the structure of peace are almost always determined by the power embedded in geography itself. The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a clear example. The geopolitical weight of Donbas, the strategic finality of Crimea, the centrality of the Black Sea in energy and connectivity, and Europe’s structural vulnerabilities have collectively defined both the war’s trajectory and the posture of the actors at the negotiating table.
Although Trump’s plan has no
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