What Americans must not compromise in a settlement of the Ukraine war.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/what-americans-must-not-compromise-in.html

Anything less than securing the agreement of Russia to withdraw from all Ukrainian territory under the control of the Ukrainian government when the nation was recognized by the United Nations and the United States would be a betrayal of Ukraine, and of our own values and principles as Americans. Trump's peace proposal, which shows incredible ignorance of who we are as a nation, as well as of Ukraine's long history and struggle for independence, is an embarassment to the United States. What President of the United States has ever been as ignorant of our own history and our own values as this deadbeat has been?

Is history so difficult for some Americans that they can't remember what happened even from a few years ago? Trump counts on Americans being ignorant of history, and bored with the details, so he can say whatever he wants to say and be believed. I believe that it was Adolf Hitler, in Mein Kampf, who stated that the "masses" are ignorant and they have short memories. Do we need to be reminded that it was Russia that began this aggression against Ukraine, first by seizing the Kerch Peninsula and the Crimea, and then by invading, bombing, launching drones and then heading out to conquer and hold the Donbas, an area that has been part of Ukraine, even during its days as a province of the Soviet Union, and under the Czars.

What should be acceptable to the United States, as conditions of peace in Ukraine, is pretty simple. The nation's sovereignty should be respected, and its territory restored. The Donbas, the Crimea, and any other area occupied by Russia needs to go back to Ukrainian sovereignty. Russia owes Ukraine whatever amount of money is required to repair its infrastructure damage, and the damage to residences and businesses bombed by planes or drones, and a reasonable reparations for military losses.

We cannot betray the sovereignty and rights of the Ukrainian people. That includes allowing them to decide whether they want to join NATO and if they do, then the United States leads the way in welcoming them in. The Europeans are outraged, rightly so, over Trump's proposal, and they correctly see that as a betrayal of them as well as Ukraine. I doubt the Europeans ever thought that Americans would elect a President who is as blatantly and willfully ignorant of history and his own country's Constitution as this one is.

[yellow dahlia]

1. Hear! Hear!