Ukraine makes significant changes to US ‘peace plan’, sources say (www.theguardian.com)
from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 23:28
https://sh.itjust.works/post/50412281

Ukraine has significantly amended the US “peace plan” to end the conflict, removing some of Russia’s maximalist demands, people familiar with the negotiations said, as European leaders warned on Monday that no deal could be reached quickly.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy may meet Donald Trump in the White House later this week, sources indicated, amid a flurry of calls between Kyiv and Washington. Ukraine is pressing for Europe to be involved in the talks.

They say there can be no recognition of land seized by Russia militarily, and that Kyiv should make its own decisions on whether to join the EU and Nato – something the Kremlin wants to veto or impose conditions on. Ukraine’s first deputy foreign minister, Sergiy Kyslytsya, told the Financial Times such issues had been “placed in brackets” for Trump and Zelenskyy to decide upon later.

#world

threaded - newest

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 00:41 next collapse

Must suck for Zelenskyy to have to schlep across the Atlantic all the time just to reset Donnie’s “who have I talked with last” bias. I Fucking hate how pathetic this administration is

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 04:05 collapse

As a society we (the US( are the absolute worst.

We are collectively on 3rd base compared to so many nations and we just screw the pooch because Fox News told us to do so.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on 25 Nov 01:22 next collapse

Here is Trump’s proposal, verbatim:

  1. Ukraine’s sovereignty will be confirmed.

  2. A comprehensive non-aggression agreement will be concluded between Russia, Ukraine and Europe. All ambiguities of the last 30 years will be considered settled.

  3. It is expected that Russia will not invade neighboring countries and NATO will not expand further.

  4. A dialogue will be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by the United States, to resolve all security issues and create conditions for de-escalation in order to ensure global security and increase opportunities for cooperation and future economic development.

  5. Ukraine will receive reliable security guarantees.

  6. The size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be limited to 600,000 personnel.

  7. Ukraine agrees to enshrine in its constitution that it will not join NATO, and NATO agrees to include in its statutes a provision that Ukraine will not be admitted in the future.

  8. NATO agrees not to station troops in Ukraine.

  9. European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland.

  10. The U.S. guarantee:

    • The U.S. will receive compensation for the guarantee;
    • If Ukraine invades Russia, it will lose the guarantee;
    • If Russia invades Ukraine, in addition to a decisive coordinated military response, all global sanctions will be reinstated, recognition of the new territory and all other benefits of this deal will be revoked;
    • If Ukraine launches a missile at Moscow or St. Petersburg without cause, the security guarantee will be deemed invalid.
  11. Ukraine is eligible for EU membership and will receive short-term preferential access to the European market while this issue is being considered.

  12. A powerful global package of measures to rebuild Ukraine, including but not limited to:

    • The creation of a Ukraine Development Fund to invest in fast-growing industries, including technology, data centers, and artificial intelligence.
    • The United States will cooperate with Ukraine to jointly rebuild, develop, modernize, and operate Ukraine’s gas infrastructure, including pipelines and storage facilities.
    • Joint efforts to rehabilitate war-affected areas for the restoration, reconstruction and modernization of cities and residential areas.
    • Infrastructure development.
    • Extraction of minerals and natural resources.
    • The World Bank will develop a special financing package to accelerate these efforts.
  13. Russia will be reintegrated into the global economy:

    • The lifting of sanctions will be discussed and agreed upon in stages and on a case-by-case basis.
    • The United States will enter into a long-term economic cooperation agreement for mutual development in the areas of energy, natural resources, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, data centers, rare earth metal extraction projects in the Arctic, and other mutually beneficial corporate opportunities.
    • Russia will be invited to rejoin the G8.
  14. Frozen funds will be used as follows:

    • $100 billion in frozen Russian assets will be invested in US-led efforts to rebuild and invest in Ukraine;
    • The US will receive 50% of the profits from this venture.
    • Europe will add $100 billion to increase the amount of investment available for Ukraine’s reconstruction.
    • Frozen European funds will be unfrozen.
    • The remainder of the frozen Russian funds will be invested in a separate US-Russian investment vehicle that will implement joint projects in specific areas. This fund will be aimed at strengthening relations and increasing common interests to create a strong incentive not to return to conflict.
  15. A joint American-Russian working group on security issues will be established to promote and ensure compliance with all provisions of this agreement.

  16. Russia will enshrine in law its policy of non-aggression towards Europe and Ukraine.

  17. The United States and Russia will agree to extend the validity of treaties on the non-proliferation and control of nuclear weapons, including the START I Treaty.

  18. Ukraine agrees to be a non-nuclear state in accordance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

  19. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant will be launched under the supervision of the IAEA, and the electricity produced will be distributed equally between Russia and Ukraine — 50:50.

  20. Both countries undertake to implement educational programs in schools and society aimed at promoting understanding and tolerance of different cultures and eliminating racism and prejudice:</

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 04:06 next collapse

Fuck Trump. We promised we would protect them.

leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Nov 04:41 next collapse

So, it’s a grift to extract Ukraine’s resources and have Ukraine pay for it, while letting Russia keep everything it’s stolen.

Typical Trump bullshit.

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 05:37 collapse

It’s also a gift to daddy Putin from Trump so he doesn’t govern up his equine fellatio footage and embarrass pedo Antoinette

taiyang@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 05:40 next collapse

Wow. I see now why experts are saying that was written by Russia, at least in part. Especially the parts clearly steered by Russian propaganda like the Nazi thing. Also 50% to the US? That’s really, really stupid.

Stubb@lemmy.sdf.org on 25 Nov 08:05 collapse

The Nazi thing isn’t Russian propaganda though? Of course Putin doesn’t stop spouting that as one of his reasons for the invasion, or maybe even blowing it out of proportion, but Ukraine does in fact have a Neo-Nazi problem. Haven’t you seen the Bandera worship that goes on in there, or the Azov fascists? Ignoring it outright as Russia propaganda will be detrimental for post-war reconstruction, especially as inaction might just lead to the Neo-Nazis taking power.

_Nico198X_@europe.pub on 25 Nov 08:32 collapse

you are spouting Russian propaganda, which is blowing things out of proportion.

Just because Azov exists doesn’t equate to a “neo-nazi problem.”

Russia and the US have a greater fascist problem than Ukraine.

Stubb@lemmy.sdf.org on 25 Nov 10:00 collapse

That assumes Azov is a run-of-the-mill Neo-Nazi group while they are much more. The white führer — that’s what Azov’s leader goes by btw — has said that his mission is to, “to spur the white races of the world towards a final crusade…against the Semite-led Untermenschen”.

Before the war you had western media reporting on them in a matter of fact way:

In January 2018, Azov rolled out its street patrol unit called National Druzhyna to “restore” order in the capital, Kyiv. Instead, the unit carried out pogroms against the Roma community and attacked members of the LGBTQ community. — alJazeera

A 2016 report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA) accused the Azov regiment of violating international humanitarian law. The report detailed incidents over a period from November 2015-February 2016 where Azov had embedded their weapons and forces in used civilian buildings, and displaced residents after looting civilian properties. The report also accused the battalion of raping and torturing detainees in the Donbas region.

The Azov Battalion is emerging as a critical node in the transnational right-wing violent extremist (RWE) network. This group maintains its own ‘Western Outreach Office’ to help recruit and attract foreign fighters that travel to train and connect with people from like-minded violent organizations from across the globe. Operatives from the outreach office travel around Europe to promote the organization and proselytize its mission of white supremacy. In July 2018, German-language fliers were distributed among the visitors at a right-wing rock festival in Thuringia, inviting them to be part of the Azov battalion: ‘join the ranks of the best’ to ‘save Europe from extinction.’ It has also established youth camps, sporting recreation centers, lecture halls, and far-right education programs, including some that teach children as young as 9 years old military tactics and far-right ideology. This aggressive approach to networking serves one of the Azov Battalion’s overarching objectives to transform areas under its control in Ukraine into the primary hub for transnational white supremacy. — Soufan Center

We are concerned about rising nationalism in Ukraine and the government’s seeming unwillingness to rein it in. Ukraine’s international donors and supporters should be very worried,” — Tanya Cooper, Ukraine researcher for Human Rights Watch.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry and its embassy in Kiev have in fact issued multiple statements denouncing the veneration of such figures. In January 2022, the diplomatic mission described that year’s annual “Torch March” commemorating Bandera’s birthday as “desecrating the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Ukraine.” Far-right extremist groups in Ukraine have also gained political currency in the past decade, none more chilling than Svoboda (formerly the Social National Party of Ukraine), whose leader claimed the country was controlled by a “Muscovite-Jewish mafia.” Svoboda has sent several members to Ukraine’s Parliament, including one who called the Holocaust a “bright period” in human history, according to Foreign Policy — Times of Israel

No one should be giving Neo-Nazis a pass because they are on the “good side”; which should have been the line that Ukraine took as it already has a horrifying history of anti-semitism. You can support any side you want but sidelining a very real problem because Putin used it as a propaganda point is beyond ridiculous.

_Nico198X_@europe.pub on 25 Nov 10:37 collapse

it’s still blowing things out of proportion. of course handle nazis, but this doesn’t mean “Ukraine has a problem.”

caoimhinr@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 08:56 next collapse
  1. definitely deserves emphasis as well, it means Russians will get away with all the atrocities they have committed even though many deserve to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus on 25 Nov 10:36 collapse

The “No Missles on Moscow” - thing reads like a preparation for the next invasion using a false flag attack, a strategy Putin is very fond of.

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 05:35 collapse

Trumps plan = give whatever daddy Putin wants so nobody sees the picture of me sucking a horse dick.

HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works on 25 Nov 06:15 next collapse

TIL the horse’s name is Bubba.

blinfabian@feddit.nl on 25 Nov 09:09 next collapse

wouldnt be surprised if the plan was straight up written by putin and google translated to American™

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 12:53 collapse

Sad that we have a foreign agent in office and nobody is doing anything about it

MrMcGasion@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 11:34 collapse

The thing is, I think if he would just wear that saucy Hugh Hefner meets Scrooge look he wore recently, and owned sucking horse dick. I think the nation would get over it.

Even if he owned sucking off Bill Clinton, we’d mostly go, “I mean, yeah, he’s a real charmer, who among us can say we wouldn’t?” At this point, I think being a pedo creep to kids with Epstein is the only sex scandal that could actually damage him. So few of his sex scandals have really stuck (aside from some real financial penalties in the E. Jean Carroll case).

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 12:58 collapse

The White House is occupied by a foreign agent that is being blackmailed seems worse but Epsteins brother said it wasn’t Clinton. Ghislane his bestie had a horse named Bubba so…