To appropriately conceptualize the “peace negotiations” between Putin’s Russia, which chose to attack Ukraine, and the victimized nation itself, we would recount the simplified but historically accurate, factual scenario. Putin’s Russia, which, by the exercise of illegal and unjustified aggression in 2014, outrageously stole two significant areas of Ukraine, Crimea and the Donbas, chose to imperialistically attack that sovereign State in February 2022; which illegal and immoral aggression constitutes the largest conflict in Europe since World War 2, resulting in massive citizen death and displacement and widespread international condemnation.
To responsibly furnish some contextual provenance, we would be remiss not to add to the scenario the simultaneous, publicly demonstrated “bromance” between the politically wily and deceptive former KGP head, Putin, and the haplessly neurotic and inept would-be dictator, Donald J. Trump.
Trump, consistent with his inveterate and systemic nature, had, in his customary “snake oil” demagoguery, asserted that, if elected, he would, in his first week, both lower consumer prices and make peace between Russia and Ukraine. His tactical representations, as customary, were equally shown to be demagogically false and tactically deceitful.
It is to eternally be recognized that it was Putin’s autocratic Russia that unprovokedly and immorally attacked the sovereign democratic nation of Ukraine. Notwithstanding any consideration of justice and logic, the present American (i.e., Trump’s) peace plan would reward the egregious Russian aggression by ceding the rest of Ukraine’s Donbas region to Russia and delimiting the size of the Ukrainian military as well as enjoining its membership in NATO. In the street lingo of our early childhood, we would loudly protest with something like, “Whattya kiddin’ me?!” Trump would reward Putin’s aggression by bizarrely gifting victory to the wrongdoer, without military cost. In a rationally just world, in contrast to the egocentrically neurotic reality of Donald J. Trump, such an offer of peace would be Kafka-esque or one proffered by the “Mad Hatter” of Lewis Carroll.
An offer of settlement by which a criminal is dystopically authorized to retain a debated portion of his robbery is inarguably beyond equitably appropriate reason, albeit within the distorted, empirical wisdom of the orange emperor and love-partner of despots. It is to be eternally borne in mind that it was Putin who egregiously invaded Ukraine and whose tragically obscene profit is to be summarily renounced and emphatically rejected.
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