Today, Russia is following the same playbook, making “peace” proposals that are virtually the same as the unilateral demands issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin before launching the full-scale invasion in 2022. The Trump administration nonetheless used them as the starting point of their own deal and is pressing Ukraine to accept them In this context, the history of Moscow’s previous “peace” efforts is instructive. No organization was more prominent in the Soviet-era “peace” campaigns than the World Peace Council, founded in Paris in 1949. The WPC’s most attention-grabbing initiative was its “Stockholm Appeal” calling for the prohibition of nuclear...