Trump’s Ukraine peace Plan: An Appeasement of Putin

EXPERT OPINION – The recently leaked 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine is nothing short of an appeasement that satisfies the maximalist demands of the aggressor in the conflict,Russian president Vladimir Putin. This is a concession from the side on the verge of victory (the free world) to the side on the verge of defeat (Putin, the leader of the anti-west coalition).Sadly, it comes at a time when the situation on the battlefield is more or less a draw, both sides are effectively attacking energy infrastructure, and Russia’s economy is moving toward recession.

According to Russian data, third quarter GDP growth in Russia was 0.6%.The expectation is that Q4 data will show the beginning of a recession. Sberbank has just decided to let 20% of their workforce go. russia has, for the frist time, begun to sell gold reserves, presumably to make up for lost revenue from the recently imposed sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil. Russia’s wartime transition to a command economy is not sustainable with a declining workforce sapped by the loss of young men sacrificed in Ukraine and those who have voted with their feet by leaving Putin’s kleptocracy.

The key points of the 28-point plan amount to nothing less than surrender by ukraine and make in vain the sacrifices made by their valiant soldiers and citizens in their three-plus years of full-scale war since Russia’s deadly invasion.

The agreement will be remembered in history with the same ignominy as the Munich Agreement of 1938 and will have the same consequence of setting the stage for a larger war to come.

Perhaps most egregious in the terms of the draft agreement is the re-establishment of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and the establishment of Russian as the official language. This indignity is on top of the kidnapping of hundreds – if not thousands – of Ukrainian children to Russia and the forced conscription into the Russian army of men from Russian-occupied territory. Then, of course, there is the massacre of innocent citizens by Russian soldiers in places like Bucha, all of which will go unaccounted for under the draft agreement. No judgement at Nuremberg for Russian war criminals.

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