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NEW YORK – It remains to be seen whether even the slightest withdrawal of the Russians from the Ukrainian border is real, and represents the beginning of a new negotiation phase in the crisis. Washington, however, interprets it as a sign of Putin’s weakness, who has understood that he has run into a dead end: in the face of the compact response of the West that threatens a huge price for the invasion, and unmasked by intelligence information passed to the media, consider the alternatives.