Saudi Arabia’s Ukraine Peace Talks a Failure, Agree on Nothing

The Saudi Arabia-sponsored “Peace Talks” failed to accomplish anything. Ukraine was hoping to bring on board more “neutral” countries supporting Ukraine’s policy. That didn’t happen, and the Ukrainians were no doubt disappointed that the big Saudi sponsored dog and pony show failed to do anything to help Ukraine objectively. Russia, of course, did not attend because Russia was not invited. Had Russia been invited, Ukraine would not have shown up, so the die was cast right from the start: No Russia, no peace. The 40 countries in attendance could not agree on a common statement, so the “peace conference” ended…