Necropolitics, Ukraine, and the Trump-Brokered Negotiations

Constantin von Hoffmeister compares the Berlin Congress of 1878 to the present-day geopolitical maneuvers surrounding Ukraine, arguing that just as Russia's battlefield victories were undone by diplomatic containment then, today's negotiations — shaped by necropolitical calculus and Trump's performative brokerage — serve only to prolong Ukraine's suffering while attempting to preserve the global order's grip on power.