This is not a “peace negotiation” or even “talks”. This is an act of denying Ukraine any agency or say in their own future. It denies European nations agency in how they are to interact with their Ukrainian brothers. It is arrogant and over reaching by Trump and Putin. It is the coming out party for the new axis of authoritarianism. It is the funeral for NATO and the post 1945 rules-based order. It is indeed a partitioning of not just Ukraine, but spheres of influence which Putin will ignore an…