Two interventions on so many newspaperswritten by a former British Prime Minister and a former secretary of US state agreeing on the same point to start armistice negotiations Ukraine: Bring those back Russia within the borders of the occupied territories 2014so before the invasion that started last year February 24th. So don’t expect from To fly – contrary to what was previously demanded by the Ukrainian head of state Zelenskyy – the withdrawal Crimea and part of Donbass. And in the event that this compromise cannot be achieved, a referendum supervised by international observers – as opposed to the one that Putin wanted, which took place at the end of September – so it’s the same population express oneself. To debunk the thesis from the Ukrainian regions which were ceded to that Kremlin serve as a starting point for the beginning of the dialogue Boris Johnson – always a loyal ally of Zelensky and became an honorary citizen from November Kyiv – And Henry kissinger, each from the Wall Street Journal and the British conservative weekly The Spectator. Although official Kyiv previously the starting condition for dialogue was the liberation of all occupied territories e Use, Born and Europe repeat as it should beUkraine to create the conditions of peace there should be a concrete glimmer of a solution to the conflict on sides To flythen the starting point could be to bring the Russians back into the borders Area Ukrainian which they have actually controlled for over eight years. In fact, there is a risk of exacerbating withdrawal as a sine qua non conflictfurther tightening i Relationships diplomats and lead to an escalation. With devastating results that do not rule out the range probability the use of nuclear weapons Putin if he ends up being humiliated.
“I don’t care how many times I have to say it — he writes Johnson in the opening lines of his speech on the financial newspaper American -: the war in Ukraine can only end in defeat Vladimir Putin. Russian forces must be de facto pushed back to the February 24 border. This is not possible Volodymyr Zelensky or the Ukrainian people will accept another result, not after the atrocities they have endured. Because the War it can only end one way that inquiry That’s how fast we get to the inevitable Conclusion. It is in everyone’s interest Russia including that the curtain falls on the mishap Putin. Not in 2025, not in 2024, but in 2023“. A very clear proposal, also paraphrased by the former US Secretary of State in The Spectator, who recalls how, as early as last May, he “recommended that a armistice line along the existing borders where the war began on February 24″ because the Russia He would never give up the territory he “occupied for almost ten years, including the Crimea. This area could be the subject of post-armistice negotiations.” And in the event that an agreement on return within the occupied borders is not possible before February 24, at this point “the application of the principle of self-determination”, go on kissingerwith referendum supervised international” that could be proposed in “particularly divisive areas that have repeatedly changed hands over the centuries”.
there Crimea In fact, it was donated by in 1954 Russia atUkraine which, however, was part of the still existing ones at the time USSR. So it was essentially part of that Area. But in the fallsoviet union 1991 the Crimeathen and even more so today, was inhabited Russophones. “Of the cast – we read in the Guardian, underscoring how i European diplomats give the area a special status – reliable opinion polls have not been conducted. A leak of the actual results of the first referendum on annexation in 2014 showed that only a third of the population voted to join Russia. Since then, the economy of Crimea it went well and there was an influx of about 300,000 Russians. Many pro-Ukrainian and Tatar activists from Crimea They were forced to do it again leaving“. from the occupied territories Russians, Hence, ethnic groups and minorities left en masse.
Kissinger: “Russia should not be humiliated” – With the revocation of To fly on the borders of 2014, he explains again kissinger“The goal of a peace process would be twofold: to affirm freedom Of Ukraine and define a new international order, particularly for Central Eastern Europe”. And also on this occasion kissinger rejects the goal of humiliation Putin and the Russia. “The preferred outcome for some is a war-ravaged Russia. I do not agree – writes the former secretary Federal State Use -. Despite all inclination to Force, there Russia it has been making crucial contributions to the global balance and balance of power for over half a millennium. His historical role should not be humiliated.” How Johnson, it is not the first time that Kissinger has expressed this position. Already in May, during the World Economic ForumHe had insisted on “starting negotiations before riots arise e tensions which will not be easy to overcome,” adding that “ideally the tipping point should be a return to the status quo ante” before the invasion. “To continue the war beyond that point would no longer be about freedom Of Ukrainebut a new war against the same Russia‘ he added. His speech contrasted with the statements made by the President of Ukraine Zelenskythose in the same conference of davos had said that if you do not respond to the invasion Vladimir Putin Brute force will take over the world. At the time he recalled that Russia was part of Europe and that it would have been a “fatal mistake” to forget its centuries-old position of power in the Old Continent and so on the West must not lose sight of the long-term relationship To flyunder threat of a lasting and ever-stronger alliance of the latter with the China.