EU’s Kaja Kallas emphasised that even during the Alaska summit, Russia resumed its attacks on Ukrainian territory. She said Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is “still trying to stall and hoping it will go without consequences.”
“He left Anchorage without making any commitment to stop the killing,” the official added.
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In her opinion, the war will not stop until Russia “realises that it is no longer possible to continue it”.
Therefore, Europe will continue to strengthen its support for Ukraine, including through the preparation of a new, 19th package of sanctions against Moscow, the European official assured.
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Kallas noted that European security issues cannot be a bargaining chip.
“The root of the war lies in Russia’s imperialist policy, not in the alleged imbalance of the European security architecture,” she concluded.
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Trump said it’s up to Zelensky because this idiot achieved nothing for Ukraine. Russia offers capitulation to Ukraine - exchange territory Ukraine controls for a ceasefire. It puts Ukraine in a worse position than before and makes it easier for russia to take Ukraine later.
Ceasefire, because “long lasting peace” being based on agreement with russia, and either this agreement gonna be unique agreement, the one they aren’t gonna break unilaterally as they did with all agreements before, or, more likely, it’s a waste of paper.
Without Ukraine being in some military alliance that requires boots on the ground means russia will break it. Military assurances Trump is proposing to Ukraine are basically the same level of help we took for granted from Biden admin. And again, not like USA has a history of being fair in promises given to Ukraine, see Budapest memorandum.
It, *meaning Budapest, was assurance, not guarantee, with explicit notes that stressed that the English meaning was relevant. No diplomat could have expected more.
The sad thing is that the public was kept in the dark.
But even if you look at Nato, there is no requirement for boots on the ground.
*edit
It says guarantees in each version but English, and it states nowhere that English is the main document and the rest are translations. All the versions have equal strength.
Besides, even if there are no guarantees, it doesn’t make USA look better for forcing Ukraine to sign off a deal that left Ukraine defenseless under the threats of global isolation.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-ukraine-give-nukes-russia-us-security-guarantees-1765048
The interesting part is that Ukraine kept pushing forward after they found out. Which shows that it doesn’t matter how the USA looks.
Literally from your article:
USA actions in the 90s caused this war today. If those politicians didn’t try to “reset the relationships with russia” at the cost of Ukraine, russians wouldn’t dare to launch the full scale invasion.
The USA could have given guarantees after the reset failed. The USA don’t seem to care about looks.