The suggestion that Ukraine should accept any limitations on its armed forces as part of a peace deal is a dangerous absurdity that must remain completely non-negotiable.
Allowing an unprovoked aggressor to dictate the size and capabilities of the nation it invaded would guarantee future catastrophe.
Despite continuous rumors regarding Russian demands to demilitarize or restrict Ukraine's military, Moscow has never shown genuine sincerity about ending its failed invasion. It is a fundamental inversion of justice for the perpetrator of a brutal war of aggression to issue demands. If any military forces require strict limitations and external monitoring to ensure regional stability, it is Russia's, not Ukraine's.
Recent history has proven beyond a doubt that Ukraine cannot rely on external promises or pieces of paper for its survival. When the threat is an imperialist neighbor that repeatedly violates international law, the only real guarantee of deterrence is a powerful and unrestricted Ukrainian military. Accepting caps on its own defense forces would strip Ukraine of its primary shield and invite an inevitable new invasion.
Accepting any limitations would also invert reality, making it look as though the victim were the aggressor. That can never happen!
"Russia alone has the power to end the conflict immediately, but it has no interest in doing so..
The answer to Russian aggression is not appeasement.
An aggressor has no right to dictate conditions.
Peace cannot be built on Russia's demands.."
- Petr Pavel
President of the Czech Republic ๐จ๐ฟ
I absolutely agree with this..!
Washington is not happy.
Andrew Puzder, the U.S. Ambassador to the EU, says President Trump remains "deeply disappointed" with NATO allies who refused to support the United States during its war against Iran. Denying access to military bases was, according to Puzder, "a big mistake."
Right. Let's be clear about what actually happened here. The Americans went to war because a few neurons misfired in the skull of their big orange clown, and now they're shocked that nobody wanted Iranian missiles raining down on European soil as the price of that stupidity. Nobody asked for this war. Nobody wanted it. Yet here we are, being lectured about solidarity.
Look at what happened to every single U.S. military base across the Middle East. All of them hit. Most of them destroyed. Washington couldn't protect its own people and its own installations, let alone anyone else's. The idea that European nations should have handed over their bases for that particular adventure is not solidarity. It's madness.
So with respect, Ambassador Puzder: shut up about Iran.
Putin's endgame in Ukraine is exactly the same as it was when the invasion started.
He still demands a demilitarized puppet state to serve his empire.
We cannot accept a reality where imperial aggression is rewarded.
Russia deserves nothing but a humiliating defeat