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Those pesky constitutions.
Those pesky constitutions.Kyiv in recent days is far from complimentary about President Trump’s proposals. An American blueprint for peace in Ukraine was put before combatants this week and quickly rejected as politically impossible by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, who cited the national constitution as making anything but total victory impossible. perhaps the greater stumbling block to achieving a workable peace agreement is President Zelensky’s insistence that he would do nothing in contradiction of the letter of the Ukrainian constitution.Zelensky Rejects Trump's Peace Plan, Preferring Total Victory Scenario
Even as talks progress and Trump says there is hope for a deal, Zelensky saying the Ukrainian constitution calls for total victory.www.breitbart.com
the constitution states the nation’s borders are “indivisible and inviolable”, this essentially locks him and Ukraine into pushing for a maximalist total victory, with every square yard of the nation’s United Nations-recognised territory liberated. Three years of brutal fighting and hundreds of thousands of lives have yet to achieve this goal.
President Zelensky said of this position that he would accept only a total defeat of the Russian invasion, a peace on unobtainable terms: “Anything that contradicts our values or our Constitution cannot be included in any agreements”.
in the case of the Ukrainian government really wanting peace the constitution could be amended. But until that time comes, plenty more constitutionalist obstructions can be found, such as any changes to the document needing to be ratified by a national referendum, and elections being impossible under wartime conditions and martial law, which is also Zelensky’s rationale for not having had to face re-election yet.
I cant read that - paywalled. Ukraine is building it's own arms industry. Europe was supposed to help. it's their primary responsibilityIts a choice. The US could help Ukraine and Europe repel Russis very easily.
Trump could seal his peace deal with a $50B arms sale to Ukraine
"The only way to stop Putin from doing this — and cement Trump’s legacy as a peacemaker — is to make sure Ukraine has a military deterrent so powerful that Russia would not dare attack again. A promise to sell U.S. weapons would give Ukraine confidence it could build that deterrent. Few countries possess the weapons systems Ukraine needs or the industrial capacity to produce them. And there is no doubt that China, Iran and North Korea — even if there is a peace agreement — will continue to provide robust assistance to Russia in preparation for its next attempt to conquer Ukraine."
you can look ahead as far as you want to. If anything Europe will be adding to it's own defense (finally)And that is where you are wrong.
You're using tunnel vision & looking only short-term.
Open your eyes wider & look long-term. Say...the next 10 years.
Trump is reportedly offering U.S. recognition of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea as part of a peace plan.They already have Crimea. Putin wants the entire eastern third of the nation, and won’t promise he won’t come back for more.
both the declaration and bogus "Referendum" are being totally illegal accroding the the constitution of the USSR.
Yep. They should know better than to have their country invaded.Well, it sounds to me like Ukraine is screwed.
Maybe they should have thought about consequences before they started changing their constitution.
Sucks to be them.
I cant read that - paywalled. Ukraine is building it's own arms industry. Europe was supposed to help. it's their primary responsibility
The original formulation of the "Kallas plan" had been to ship Ukraine at least 1.5 million rounds of artillery ammunition in 2025. That idea, presented last month, was shot down by a Hungarian veto. Then she tried again, banking on a coalition of willing states to dig into their weapons stores and national coffers to deliver up to €40 billion in military aid to Ukraine this year.EU plan to send more military aid to Ukraine in shambles
The bloc had aimed to send billions in military aid and artillery ammunition to Kyiv, but member countries split on the plan.www.politico.eu
Unfortunately for Kallas — and for Ukraine — her plan didn't survive impact with the reality of a European Union where interest in making sacrifices for Kyiv varies dramatically from country to country.
Southern nations — much further from the Russian threat — are less eager than those in the east or the north. But in the end, even France, the bloc's biggest military power, balked at giving a thumbs-up to the aid package.
Not Putin's. He's rebuilding it.The USSR dissolved. Their desires died with them.
money and manpower,, and shells and weapons..The article suggests the only way to peace is to sell Ukraine $50 billion in weapons. That level of support would deter Russia from further encroachment.
Your argument that there os no way to stop Russia isn't the reality you make it out to be.
because thats is how peace deals are negotiated after a war has begun.Why would any one support Ukraine giving up part of its country to an attacker? Even Trump knows that is impossible.
I don't see total victory a possibility without other nations providing troops to fight.
Total loss could easily become the only possibility.
I don't really have a position, just recognizing the facts.Ironically, considering your position on this, it's Russia that has desperately sought and used other nations' troops to fight and even then they are no closer to defeating Ukraine than Russia was when it first launched the invasion.
Nope. The USSR was ILLEGALLY DESTROYED, not "dissolved".The USSR dissolved. Their desires died with them.
Trump DOES HAVE a peace plan. But this plan was rejected by Z.Zelensky rejected Putin's peace plan. Trump doesn''t have one.
Nope. The USSR was ILLEGALLY DESTROYED, not "dissolved".
Their desires didn't die, stop LYING.
Trump DOES HAVE a peace plan. But this plan was rejected by Z.
Trump DOES HAVE a peace plan. But this plan was rejected by Z.
This is a cynical LIE. People of the USSR overwhelmingly voted in favour of PRESERVATION of Soviet Union in Gorbachev's referendum.don´t be so fast with liar shoutings
nobody wanted to stay in that club anymore and a club without members is dead
This is a cynical LIE. People of the USSR overwhelmingly voted in favour of PRESERVATION of Soviet Union in Gorbachev's referendum.
Kyiv in recent days is far from complimentary about President Trump’s proposals. An American blueprint for peace in Ukraine was put before combatants this week and quickly rejected as politically impossible by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, who cited the national constitution as making anything but total victory impossible. perhaps the greater stumbling block to achieving a workable peace agreement is President Zelensky’s insistence that he would do nothing in contradiction of the letter of the Ukrainian constitution.Zelensky Rejects Trump's Peace Plan, Preferring Total Victory Scenario
Even as talks progress and Trump says there is hope for a deal, Zelensky saying the Ukrainian constitution calls for total victory.www.breitbart.com
the constitution states the nation’s borders are “indivisible and inviolable”, this essentially locks him and Ukraine into pushing for a maximalist total victory, with every square yard of the nation’s United Nations-recognised territory liberated. Three years of brutal fighting and hundreds of thousands of lives have yet to achieve this goal.
President Zelensky said of this position that he would accept only a total defeat of the Russian invasion, a peace on unobtainable terms: “Anything that contradicts our values or our Constitution cannot be included in any agreements”.
in the case of the Ukrainian government really wanting peace the constitution could be amended. But until that time comes, plenty more constitutionalist obstructions can be found, such as any changes to the document needing to be ratified by a national referendum, and elections being impossible under wartime conditions and martial law, which is also Zelensky’s rationale for not having had to face re-election yet.
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