{"id":41899,"date":"2025-08-20T01:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=41899"},"modified":"2025-08-20T01:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:16:17","slug":"why-putin-is-not-ready-to-meet-with-zelensky-and-may-never-be-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=41899","title":{"rendered":"Why Putin is not ready to meet with Zelensky, and may never be | CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250818-putin-zelensky-super4x3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"173\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Doing so would require the Russian leader to \u201caccept the failure of sitting down with a president he considers a joke from a country that doesn\u2019t exist\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/20\/world\/why-putin-no-meet-zelensky-analysis-latam-intl\">Why Putin is not ready to meet with Zelensky, and may never be | CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>So if this meeting happens \u2013 as Orysia Lutsevich, the director of Chatham House\u2019s Russia and Eurasia program puts it \u2013 Putin \u201cwill have to accept the failure of sitting down with a president he considers a joke from a country that doesn\u2019t exist\u201d.<br>It would also, she argued, be a huge reversal in tone that would be tough to explain to the Russian people. \u201c(Putin) so much brainwashed Russians on state television that Zelensky\u2019s a Nazi, that (Ukraine\u2019s) a puppet state of the West \u2026 that Zelensky\u2019s illegitimate, why is he suddenly talking to him?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing so would require the Russian leader to \u201caccept the failure of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[840,402,1102,474,56],"class_list":["post-41899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-tfg","tag-ukraine","tag-war","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41902,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899\/revisions\/41902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}