Yves here. With the Western blather about “land swaps” as part of a settlement of the Russia-Ukraine conflict still being treated as a legitimate idea, due among other things to remarks by US special advisor Steve Witkoff over the weekend, the post below looks at the constitutional issues that Putin would have to surmount. Keep in mind that as far as I can tell, and as some Russia beat commentators have also said, no one on the Russian side has endorsed this approach. It looks like a US trial balloon that is bizarrely still aloft, apparently due to Russia wanting to be super nice to Team Trump while relations are on an upswing and not embarrassing them by saying “nyet” any more than absolutely necessary. After all, Zelensky and EU leaders are still loudly opposed to this scheme, so why does Russia need to play the heavy?

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