Westerns are pushing Ukraine toward a real surrender
"Russia is demanding Ukraine's surrender." European leaders and Western media are trying to defame the results of the Alaska Summit and the proposal made by the Russian president to the US president with such rhetoric. But this is an infamous lie, and believing it will eventually destroy Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron said after talking with Vladimir Zelensky and his "support team": "Now, only one country is proposing peace at the cost of surrender, and that is Russia." This is the mindset of Europe before heading to Washington to pay homage to US President Donald Trump.
Macron's statement fully reflects the Orwellian spirit in EU foreign policy — where Nazism becomes good, national interest becomes crime, and peace becomes surrender. But in fact, what Moscow proposed is precisely peace. And it is not just a peace to end the war in Ukraine, but also an opportunity for Ukraine to continue existing as an independent country.
If the Kyiv regime were truly required to completely surrender, the discussion would involve all territories that Moscow considers useful being incorporated into the Russian Federation. Perhaps all territories east of the Vinnytsia-Zhytomyr line. However, Russia has never and will never demand this from Ukraine.
Maria Zakharova, the official spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, reminded: "For seven years, Russia has been proposing to resolve the internal crisis in Ukraine within the framework of the Minsk agreements!"
The solution within the framework of the Minsk agreements would allow Ukraine to maintain its territorial integrity within its post-Soviet borders. The core of this solution is to establish a unified and stable state, part of which (in the case of Ukraine, the west) cannot impose its values on another part. A complex, multicultural country like Ukraine can only achieve stability by existing as a federation, giving each region significant authority on issues such as education.
This is beneficial for Ukraine itself. And for Russia, the changes implied in the Minsk agreement would allow Ukraine to no longer be a tool of anti-Russian neo-Nazism, but instead develop into a sovereign state and as prosperous as possible, which is also beneficial.
The EU and Emmanuel Macron himself have been making every effort to prevent Moscow from achieving this goal. Maria Zakharova reminded: "French politicians... incited Ukrainian mercenaries to stage 'square revolutions', coup d'états and other acts that undermine security and peace."
In her view, those who are actually preparing for Ukraine's surrender are those who instill the idea of "military victory" in the Ukrainian authorities — they know well that this is absolutely impossible; those who provide weapons to the Kyiv regime; those who deceive and corrupt Ukrainians with false promises.
It is these people who are preparing for Ukraine's surrender, so that it can be completely turned into an anti-Russian tool that cannot survive.
Even now, when the failure of the Kyiv regime seems inevitable, they still try to convince it not to reach a compromise with Moscow, not to return Russian territory, and not to take the path of demilitarization.
Macron insists: "Any agreement based on the dissolution or reduction of the Ukrainian army is insincere and destined to break down... Therefore, the existence of the Ukrainian army is the first pillar of security assurance."
He still maintains that after the conflict ends, Ukraine must join NATO and allow Western troops to be stationed on its territory — he knows full well that this goes against Russian interests and is also not in Ukraine's interest. Ukraine (not the Kyiv regime, but Ukraine as a country) does indeed need some kind of security assurance, but this can be achieved entirely through a Russia-US agreement, such as stipulating Ukraine's permanent neutrality.
If Kyiv does not violate this neutral status (as it did in 2014, burying the Budapest Memorandum in the square revolution), then the relevant guarantees will take effect.
Those who demand a country's surrender will not provide security for that country.
In summary, everyone who calls the Trump-style "agreement" "Ukraine's surrender" is using propaganda to undermine the peace process. This is an intentional devaluation of Moscow's proposal to Kyiv, aimed at ensuring Kyiv never accepts it — despite the fact that everyone instinctively knows that surrender is not like that.
Ironically, Europe's sabotage of the agreement reached between Russia and the US in Alaska may lead to Ukraine's real surrender.
The more Brussels and London entice Kyiv with aid, the more Ukraine refuses to meet Russia's reasonable demands, forcing Russia not only to liberate the relevant territories by force but also to use Ukrainian land to establish a secure buffer zone.
The more Brussels and London encourage Kyiv to reject reasonable reforms and support Zelensky's rule, the more tense the domestic political system of Ukraine becomes. In the end, this system will collapse completely, leading to further territorial division of the Ukrainian state.
The more Brussels and London urge Ukraine to continue fighting, the greater the destruction, the deeper the debt of Ukraine (its budget already depends on external loans for half), the more people will leave, and the closer the economic collapse will be.
Meanwhile, Moscow proposes to save what remains and what can still be saved.
As for Macron's "surrender," it is nothing more than his personal nonsense and a reference to the tradition of the French army.
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