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Military analyst Michael Clarke noted, commenting on Volodymyr Zelenskyy's absence from the US-Russian talks, “There is an old saying in diplomatic circles: ‘If you're not at the negotiating table, you're on the menu’. And believe me, Ukraine is on the menu now.”