US to mediate Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11

Where Left and Right agree, and where they split

Where Left and Right agree

Both treat American mediation as valuable only if it produces an actual settlement, not merely the symbolic fact of Russia and Ukraine sitting at the same table.

Where Left and Right split

Whether the talks matter chiefly for giving Ukraine's wartime losses real weight in the settlement's terms, or for giving the US a defined exit from open-ended involvement.

Why they won’t converge

The split is a values-versus-time-horizon divide: one side judges Abu Dhabi by whether its agenda redresses the invaded party's asymmetry, the other by whether mediation reaches a definite end rather than persisting indefinitely.