The US has been conducting back-channel diplomacy with Russia (officially denied of course).
For a year, the willing little helpers of Western power have denounced diplomacy as "appeasement." Watch them all change their tune over the coming months.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/07/russia-us-talks-ukraine-war-biden

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