It’s now 24 November 2025, and the question hangs heavier than ever: Can Zelensky make peace? We first posted this interview back in November 2022, and almost everything Professor Stephen F. Cohen warned has proven true, except... one major shift: the U.S. administration has flipped. Trump is back, openly opposing the war and pressuring Zelensky toward a settlement. But even now, the fundamentals remain unchanged: Zelensky still cannot make peace with a gun to his head. In 2019, he was elected o