From: Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (701st day):
Some politicians are suggesting to end ruzzian war against Ukraine by forcing Ukraine to give up some land to aggressor. It equals to agreeing to demands of a terrorist in hopes that it would permanently satisfy him. Instead you would just open Pandora’s box. Here are couple pieces of news from today’s news feed that prove exactly that.
- The State Department on Monday brushed off reports of Russian President Vladimir Putin ordering his government to look into the nation’s former “real estate” abroad, saying Alaska would be staying in American hands.
Putin signed a new decree last week to allocate funds for the research and registration of Russian property overseas, including that in former territories of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union.
- A Russian victory in Ukraine could embolden China, the UK’s defense secretary, Grant Shapps, said on Wednesday.
“There’s no world in which Putin can be allowed to win,” he continued. “Not only would it embolden him, putting our other Eastern European allies in Russia’s crosshairs, but it would also signal to China that everything is up for grabs.”
Shapps isn’t the first official to have speculated about China’s interest in the Russia-Ukraine war.
“I think the Chinese leadership is trying to study the lessons of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” CIA director William Burns told NBC in July 2022.”
Pacifying aggressors by giving in to their demands doesn’t lead to peace; it leads to bigger wars. Didn’t the world learn from Chamberlain’s appeasement policy, the policy of appeasing Hitler and Mussolini, operating jointly at that time, during 1937 and 1938 by continuous concessions granted in the hope of reaching a point of saturation when the dictators would be willing to accede to international collaboration. That appeasement policy emerged from the failure of the League of Nations and the failure of collective security.
Shaking hands with “good friend” putin and giving the aggressor part of Ukraine would be pouring oil into the fire of war – the fire that will then quickly spread beyond Ukraine.
Voice of Ukraine 