Peacemaking requires cooperation between the two superpowers. This was certainly accomplished at the Alaska Summit. Peace in Ukraine cannot be achieved in isolation from everything else happening in the world. If the rest of the world becomes as chaotic as Europe, there will be more wars and suffering, and the chances of a peace settlement for Ukraine will remain slim. We simply cannot put the cart before the horse. However, this has been the approach of the European Commission. That is why nothing is moving. We are stuck in a quagmire, and hope is fading fast for the peace-loving Ukrainian people.
President Trump is fully aware of the situation. He realized that time is running out and that we are quickly slipping toward a potentially dangerous global conflict. The war between Russia and Ukraine is more than a clash between two Slavic nations; it is a blaze that has set fire to an already unstable world order. No combination of nations can easily reverse the situation, but President Trump is determined to do so. Nothing will stop him—not even the shameless attacks on his genuinely good intentions. He is immune to all this because he is addressing the root causes.
This catastrophe would never have befallen Ukraine if some European countries had not worked to turn Russia into an enemy. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States had invested heavily in integrating Russia into the Atlantic system. President Putin was proud of this transformation and established the framework for the “Four Common Spaces” at the EU-Russia St. Petersburg Summit in May 2003 to deepen cooperation between the EU and Russia, including in the area of security. As a result, Europe prospered with access to cheap Russian mineral resources, and Russia modernized its political and economic systems. Unfortunately, NATO’s eastward expansion and Russia’s reaction to it interrupted this progress.
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