As Ukraine’s allies gathered in Halifax on Friday for the International Security Forum, president Peter Van Praagh acknowledged the foreboding many felt following the election of Donald Trump.
“Judging from today’s reports and traditional and social media, we might be forgiven for believing that Ukraine can no longer win the war against Russian aggression,” he said. “This widespread forecast is not true.”
“It was not true when all the experts said the same thing on February 24, 2022, the date Putin invaded, and it is not true now,” he added, promising a conference that would “change this doom-and-gloom narrative.”
The meeting represents one of the best chances for those still committed to Ukrainian victory against Russia to try to find ways to stymie Trump’s declared intention of pushing Ukraine into peace talks that almost certainly would end with the loss of a large part of its territory.
Those allies face …