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For Ukraine – his soldiers who were exhausted and brave, thousands of families who grieved in their deaths, and his surrounded president – that was what they fear.
They are afraid that the compromise they will make will be messy, expensive, unfair and ultimately beneficial for tyrannies that attack that bring death and destruction to their sovereign land.
Six weeks ago, I spoke with President Zelenskyy in London.
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I put it in our Sky News interview that President Trump and Putin headed to making an agreement between themselves, a big offer, where Ukraine was only one part on the chess board.
Zelenskyy Smiling as if to acknowledge the reality ahead.
He stopped and then he said this: “We will not be a card in talks between major countries, and we will never accept that … I certainly do not want to see a global agreement between America and Russia.
“We don’t need it. We are a separate story, the victims of Russian aggression and we will not reward it.”
It was a response that betrayed his biggest fear – that this would basically be a Trump negotiation where Zelenskyy and Ukraine will be told “take or leave”.
And, by the way, if you “leave it”, then it will hurt.
Hard reality
It’s a prospect that now faces Zelenskyy as Trump And Putin Plow forward on a course that has a clear attraction for both of them.
Of course, Zelenskyy is right to say there is no agreement without Ukraine. But there is a hard reality that is being played here.
Trump wants an agreement in Ukraine – any agreement – that he can carve as victory. He really wants it and he wants it now.
This is an obstacle to a broader strategic agreement with Putin and he wants it to get out of the road. That’s what he did, and that’s the way he did it. And President Putin found out.
He knew Trump, he saw an opportunity in Trump, and he could not cross Russia to Alaska quite quickly. He will return to the top table of global diplomacy.
There is always an agreement that must be done
Make no mistake, when Trump said he just wanted to stop the killing, he was serious. Losing a young life that is so careless offending him. He kept saying it.
He saw war, in general, as a waste of life and unnecessary money. There is an agreement that must be done. There is always an agreement.
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Sadly for Ukraine, in this case, it is impossible to be a fair agreement.
How could the “fair” agreement be when you were a victim of hazardous brutality and heinous crime.
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But that might be an agreement they had to take unless they wanted to fight that was getting more unilateral with much less help than Trump and America.
A senior British diplomat tells me that if the situation turns out to be feared, it should not be called a land-land agreement. It must be called annexation “because that is”.
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But this is rubbing it.
Peace, calm, the end of the terror of the night war has many things to recommend it. In short, bad peace often seems better than there is no peace. But, in the end, the dictator who is valued always returns to more.
If Ukraine must receive a bad peace, then it will want a clear security guarantee to ensure that it cannot happen again.
At least they are appropriate.
There are many that are at stake in Alaska.
