Is Ukraine seeking a realistic peace?
Zelensky’s visit to the US Congress marks the beginning of a new phase of the conflict in Ukraine. But, unfortunately, everyone hoping for peace must deal with the recent 2023 agenda post-meeting, and the milestones keep going in the direction of war more than negotiations. But, is Ukraine seeking a realistic peace?
To make the situation more confusing and critical, the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Dmitro Kuleba, a few days later Zelensky’s American trip, released his idea of an UN-backed summit for peace by the end of February 2023.
We mentioned peace, but let us turn off your enthusiasm immediately. Unfortunately, there are questionable requests from Ukraine that will bring more tragedies and deaths to the Ukrainian population.
Is Ukraine seeking peace? We are confused.
During Zelensky’s speech in Washington, both Biden and Zelensky said that President Putin has “no intention of ending the war”. Zelensky added that the “money spent by the West isn’t charity but an investment in global security and democracy.” Unfortunately, no one can trace how weapons finished into the black market and how Ukraine spends the West’s money.
Generic words and slogans don’t explain anything in reality. Which democracy was Zelensky referring to? Ukraine is a one-party regime now. And, frankly, it looks unrealistic that Russia wants to invade Europe because it doesn’t have the resources to do it and will cause a nuclear war. So, what is this danger that scares the West?
Zelensky gained another 1.85 billion dollars, a Patriot missile system and new weapons. Unfortunately, no one mentioned the issues that led to this conflict, such as:
- stopping NATO expansion at Russia’s borders;
- ending the conflict in Donbas;
- Ukraine’s neutrality.
As the Republican Chip Roy described Zelensky’s address to Congress, the “political theatre” in Washington didn’t leave any hope for peace talks and political solutions. Still, it was another attempt to strengthen the propaganda behind this conflict.
Why can’t Ukraine have peace, according to Zelensky?
Zelensky, during his speech, mentioned that Ukraine is seeking fair peace with Russia. However, Ukraine doesn’t want to lose any of the four regions annexed by Russia and possibly, take back Crimea. In principle, it’s a fair request.
But this is what Zelensky should have advocated pre-invasion. Everyone knew that if Russia invades, they would take new lands, which is what happened. Zelensky made a colossal mistake refusing to negotiate and compromise with Russia pre-invasion and now.
The reality changed, and we can’t ignore it.
Russia occupied four regions. It’s now preparing a major assault on Kyiv and looks to have more weapons, soldiers and resources to fight in the long term. If Russia must retreat from the four regions occupied, then NATO should leave Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Sweden.
That’s a fair way to start the negotiations. Then, Russia won’t have NATO soldiers at its borders, and Ukraine can return to pre-invasion conditions. And, hopefully, with a fair political solution for the Donbas population.
Will NATO accept it? Of course, no, and this is why we have a war today.
A compromise is necessary from all sides to end this conflict. The West can’t expect renounces from Russia without giving any concessions. In this case, we can clearly say that it’s not Russia that isn’t looking for negotiations.
But the nonsense doesn’t end here. Kuleba and the summit for peace.
A few days after Zelensky’s speech to Congress, the foreign minister of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, sponsored an UN-backed summit to end the war. Finally, good news, right? But, no, the madness never stops.
Kuleba said, and we aren’t joking, that Russia can’t be at the summit for peace. According to Kuleba, Russia would first need to face prosecution for war crimes at an international court.
It’s frankly unthinkable how the Ukrainian government wants to build diplomatic solutions with Russia. According to Zelensky, Russia should leave all the regions occupied without receiving answers to its pre-invasion requests. Then Kuleba’s words make it very hard to imagine how Russia can accept senseless proposals like this.
Is the Ukraine government fits to rule?
The question is complex and probably unfair. Of course, Ukraine needs to defend its interests and territories, but it can’t say that it is Russia that doesn’t want peace. Without a logical proposal and an excellent diplomatic environment, it’s impossible to wish for peace because those conditions are unacceptable to Russia. Meantime, Ukrainians keep dying and suffering for questionable political decisions.
We mentioned in our previous post how this conflict was easily preventable.
Zelensky, Biden and Kuleba showed the world impossible requests and a total absence of diplomacy and blamed Russia for not wanting to end the war. But, again, negotiations need compromises. What is going to be NATO’s one if Russia leaves Ukraine? Still, no proposals from the NATO side.
If you were in Putin’s position, what would you do?
The question is legit. NATO isn’t offering any responses to Putin’s requests pre-invasion. We don’t see proposals about ending NATO expansion or how to end the Donbas conflict. And to make the situation even worse, Kuleba is asking for an international court to persecute Russia before starting negotiations.
Are those the conditions for seeking a peaceful environment? We think President Putin can’t accept those terms. So, what would you do? How does it look your ideal compromise to begin negotiations?
Updates on the 29th December 2022
As we suspected, Russia didn’t like the proposal prepared by Zelensky and Biden. Today Russia launched other 100 missiles on Ukraine cities. As we mentioned in our post, this approach is causing tragic treat to the Ukrainians population. It’s time to compromise and restore peace. Politicians must do their diplomatic job and not working on weapons like generals.
