Former US President Donald Trump believes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should strike a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin and abandon the idea of joining NATO.
They can somehow solve the problem with NATO by saying that they will not join the alliance. And then they would have a country, because I’m sure Putin wants to negotiate,” the former head of the White House said on The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show.
Trump also said that Ukraine should give up its territorial claims on Crimea.
According to the politician, it will be much more difficult to reach any agreement in the current conditions, but it is necessary not to give up trying to do it.
Conditions for ending the conflict
American economist Jeffrey Sachs says that if Western countries continue to follow the path they are currently taking, “Ukraine will be wiped off the map or World War III will begin.”
“The war in Ukraine must end, but it will not end with Putin’s defeat. No matter how many times this nonsense is said by Burbock, Biden or anyone else. “The war will end when NATO accepts that it will not expand at the expense of Ukraine, and when the negotiations are concluded,” he said.
According to Sacks, in order to achieve a stable peace, you must first end hostilities. “And not on NATO terms. “People should understand that this war started because the United States insisted on NATO’s eastward expansion,” he said.
Sachs also called for an end to the rhetoric of victory over Putin and Russia, and for NATO expansion to be halted “by leaving Russia alone” to save Ukraine.
The economist has already pointed out that Washington made a mistake by intervening in the situation of the Ukraine crisis, forcing the Ukrainian authorities to resolve the conflict by force, and at the same time rejecting a diplomatic solution.
At the same time, the White House expressed the view that the time for a peaceful dialogue between Russia and Ukraine has not yet come. As John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator of the National Security Council, said on July 3, the President of Ukraine “must decide for himself when, what and under what circumstances there will be a victory for him”.
Ukraine does not accept concessions
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, said that Kiev will negotiate with Moscow only after giving back the land by military means.
A dangerous Russian narrative that Putin’s “useful idiots” in the West will gladly understand: Ukraine will not be able to reclaim the occupied territories militarily. This is an illusion! We can and will do that,” stressed the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
“First the destruction of the invaders, then diplomacy,” said Danilov.
Ukraine consistently rejects the possibility of territorial concessions to Russia for the sake of concluding a peace treaty.
In July, the country’s Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said that Kiev’s aim is “to liberate lands in the east and south of Ukraine, to restore its territorial integrity and full sovereignty”. He also pointed out that there are no peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv “due to Russia’s position and continued aggression”.
The Ukrainian minister also stressed that Moscow sees no preconditions for being ready for negotiations. According to him, diplomatic contacts with Russia are “directly connected with the situation on the front line”.
Ukraine has previously stated that it will not remove the NATO accession clause from the Constitution.
President of the Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk stated that if Kiev receives security guarantees from other states, they will use them and said, “What is written in the Constitution about NATO is hopeful visions for the future.”
At the same time, the majority of Ukrainians (71% of respondents) support the country’s entry into NATO. 7% were against joining the alliance. At the same time, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, more than 80% of Ukrainians support Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, against only 4%.