https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/23/europe/rubio-russia-ukraine-ceasefire-talks-intl-hnk/index.html
President Donald Trump slammed Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday for his comments that Ukraine wouldn’t recognize Russian control of Crimea, calling the remarks “very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia.”
“It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that makes it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about! The situation for Ukraine is dire — He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country,” he posted on Truth Social.
Any move to recognize Russia’s control of Crimea would reverse a decade of US policy and could upset the widely held post-World War Two consensus that international borders should not be changed by force.
Anyone who knows history knows he's right on this one.
ReplyDeleteCrimea was part of Russia for a few centuries. Ukrainian Soviet leader Kruschev tranferred it to the Ukraine SSR (the other USSR, heh) as a gift to his homeland. Putin simply took it back.
Crimea had various owner occupiers including Greece, turkey, so russian occupation was just expansionism.
DeleteDoesn't make Putin right
Anyone who knows history knows Trumps approach is stupid
Deleteincluding wsj and ny post