12 February, 09:14
Donald Trump stated that Volodymyr Zelensky has “not very good ratings” inside the country and that he will have to concede territory and then hold elections.
🤔 But what do Zelensky’s ratings have to do with Ukrainian territory occupied by the Russian aggressor?
❗ Does Trump realize that, in doing so, he is effectively legalizing Putin’s war? Any recognition of territorial concessions as a compromise legitimizes war as a tool for resolving "disputes."
📌 But there was no dispute! Russia invaded Ukrainian territory because the Kremlin considers it its own property, and Ukrainians its subjects.
📢 Recognizing territorial concessions violates all norms of international law!
⚠️ Zelensky and elections are an internal matter of Ukraine.
⚠️ Negotiations may be a way to suspend the war.
⚠️ But territorial concessions to the occupier are nonsense.
Why offer a cannibal your hand if you are the main course on his menu?
❗ This strongly resembles 1938, when Hitler was allowed to seize part of Czechoslovakia for the sake of peace. Remember what that led to?
🔎 Let’s recall:
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, along with European leaders, agreed to transfer the Sudetenland to Hitler in exchange for a promise of peace.
📸 In a famous photo, Chamberlain holds the document known as the Munich Agreement, signed with Hitler, and declares the famous words:
"I have brought peace for our time."
Yet within a year, Hitler violated the agreements, World War II began, and Chamberlain’s appeasement policy ended in complete failure.
📢 History teaches us that it teaches nothing…