After the Zelensky-Trump Clash - US May Replace Zelensky and Put Greater Pressure on Europe to End the War
Prof. Glenn Diesen on Neutrality Studies
I spoke with Pascal Lottaz about the clash in the Oval Office. The US demands that Zelensky agree to ending the war on the terms being negotiated between the US and Russia: No NATO membership, accepting territorial concessions, and no US security guarantees. This is a terrible deal for Ukraine, yet it is the best possible deal as more men and territory will be lost at an accelerating rate. The Europeans have no realistic alternatives, and it is also feared that they will seek to disrupt the peace process. The US is therefore putting immense pressure on Ukraine and will likely have Zelensky replaced if he does not fall in line.
Glenn Diesen, Pascal Lottaz and everyone on their side of the fence have been exactly correct in their assessments as to the situation on Ukraine and what to do about it. Their assessments fall in line with John Mearsheimer’s theory of offensive realism which is exactly correct.
An article by former ambassador Jack F. Matlock, Jr., ‘Trump and the viable road to peace in Ukraine”, posted on Responsible Statecraft today, brings necessary historical clarity and validates what Glenn Diesen, John Mearsheimer and others have been saying. One of Matlock’s observations: If the policies now being pursued by Trump had been implemented by previous American administrations, the war in Ukraine would not have occurred. “They are not capitulations in advance or appeasement as some critics have charged. They get at the roots of the war.” Having been a participant in the negotiations to end the Cold War, he notes that the procedure used by the first Bush administration to negotiate the unification of Germany in 1990 first engaged in bilateral talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev before referring the agreements to the other participants. It is ironic that Trump is exposing the Rot in our current political leadership.