{"id":887794,"date":"2022-11-18T06:58:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T06:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=265817"},"modified":"2022-11-18T06:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T06:58:25","slug":"why-a-diplomatic-solution-to-the-ukraine-war-is-getting-more-and-more-elusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/11\/18\/why-a-diplomatic-solution-to-the-ukraine-war-is-getting-more-and-more-elusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Diplomatic Solution to the Ukraine War is Getting More and More Elusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been more calls for a diplomatic solution to the war in recent weeks. But it is difficult to see this happening when both sides believe they can still make gains on the battlefield and have no option but to go on. The Ukrainian army will not want a ceasefire which would allow the Russian military to reorganise and reinforce. Putin, who started the war to re-establish Russia as a super-power, cannot admit that he has degraded its status even further by his folly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/18\/why-a-diplomatic-solution-to-the-ukraine-war-is-getting-more-and-more-elusive\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/18\/why-a-diplomatic-solution-to-the-ukraine-war-is-getting-more-and-more-elusive\/\">Why a Diplomatic Solution to the Ukraine War is Getting More and More Elusive<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/18\/why-a-diplomatic-solution-to-the-ukraine-war-is-getting-more-and-more-elusive\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been more calls for a diplomatic solution to the war in recent weeks. But it is difficult to see this happening when both sides believe they can still make gains on the battlefield and have no option but to go on. The Ukrainian army will not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887795,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887794\/revisions\/887795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}