Henry Bolton, British former politician who was the leader of the UK Independence Party, is utterly aghast at the rumors that Trump is sending emissaries to moscow to rubber-stamp putin's invasion.
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Henry Bolton, British former politician who was the leader of the UK Independence Party, is utterly aghast at the rumors that Trump is sending emissaries to moscow to rubber-stamp putin’s invasion. If this is true, Bolton argues, Trump isn’t just selling out Ukraine, he’s tearing up every rule that’s kept europe relatively peaceful for the last 50 years and confirming to every tin-pot dictator that borders are just suggestions. it’s either total incompetence or something “far worse.”
Bolton: “The Daily Telegraph and other outlets are reporting that President Trump has sent Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow to tell President Putin that he is prepared to formally recognize Luhansk, Donetsk, and Crimea as Russian territory. And if that’s correct, then this marks a very, very dark day for European security.
If he does this, he’d be rewarding an invader, an aggressor, betraying Ukraine’s defense, and ripping up something called the Helsinki Final Act, which laid the foundations for peace and territorial integrity in Europe since 1975. He’d be driving a wedge between the United States and the European allies, undermining NATO’s deterrent power and effect, and would send a very bad signal indeed to every autocrat in the world that they can change borders by force.
We have of course got to try everything we can to end this war, but appeasing the aggressor has never, ever brought peace. It’s only invited further conflict. And if we’ve learned anything at all from history, it’s surely got to be that. And as I say, I keep saying, if indeed this is happening, I’m praying it’s not, but if it is, then it’s not diplomacy or pragmatism. It is surrender, American surrender.
But even worse, President Trump could be undermining the security of all of us here in Britain and Europe without even consulting us. It would confirm either extraordinary incompetence on his part, arrogance, or maybe even something far worse. I mean, after all, what is motivating the American president if it isn’t the interests of Ukraine, Europe, or the United States?
The world is watching, and people in the know are holding their breath. Britain and Europe have got to stand firm. We’ve got to defend the principles of sovereignty and law and resolutely remind Washington and Moscow that peace cannot be built on the foundations of force, aggression, or oppression. And this is a moment I think for clarity, courage, and leadership, not capitulation or compromise.
Someone in Britain or in Europe has got to stand up and show some real statesmanlike leadership in a measured, proper, diplomatic manner, but firmly and strongly, because otherwise, the years to come are going to be…”
Yep.