Tuesday, May 24, 2022

News: May 24

Kissinger says Ukraine should concede territory to Russia to end war suggesting a position that a vast majority of Ukrainians are against as the war enters its fourth month. ........ Kissinger urged the United States and the West to not seek an embarrassing defeat for Russia in Ukraine, warning it could worsen Europe’s long-term stability. ......... After saying that Western countries should remember Russia’s importance to Europe and not get swept up “in the mood of the moment,” Kissinger also pushed for the West to force Ukraine into accepting negotiations with a “status quo ante,” which means the previous state of affairs. ........ “Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome. ......... “Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself.” ........ restoring a situation in which Russia formally controlled Crimea and informally controlled Ukraine’s two easternmost regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has emphasized that part of his conditions for entering peace talks with Russia would include a restoration of preinvasion borders. ............ Much of Ukraine agrees with Zelensky on not giving up land in exchange for peace. ........... 82 percent of Ukrainians are not prepared to give up any of Ukraine’s land, even if it means the war will drag on. .......... a recent editorial from the New York Times’s editorial board that argued Ukraine would have to make “painful territorial decisions” to achieve peace. .......... The editorial was met with backlash, including from Zelensky adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, who said that “any concession to Russia is not a path to peace, but a war postponed for several years.” ........ Kissinger, a longtime advocate of a realpolitik approach that has nations putting their practical aims in front of morals and principles, urged European leaders to not lose sight of Russia’s place in Europe and risk the country forming a permanent alliance with China. .......... “I hope the Ukrainians will match the heroism they have shown with wisdom”



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