Rose Gottemoeller is the former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, has held a series of top State Department posts including Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, and was chief negotiator of the New START Treaty. We talked last December about the prospects for a negotiated end to the Ukraine-Russia war. Since then the new administration has disappointed earlier hopes that it would play a real mediating role; instead it has made demands of Ukraine and asked very little of Russia. In this interview (soon to be available also in podcast form), Rose and I discuss the state of the negotiation and why it is unlikely to end the war:
You can see our conversation from last December here:
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