At the same time, however, this doesn’t mean that the Jeddah talks didn’t have any positive aspects to them. As was explained here, they backfired on Zelensky by serving as an opportunity for the Chinese and Indian representatives to share their envisaged endgames to the NATO-Russian proxy war with the largest number of policymakers thus far. Those countries that sincerely want to end the conflict as soon as possible will naturally favor their proposed compromises over Kiev’s unrealistic maximalist demands.