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Trump's 'peace plans' do not change Russia's intent to destroy Ukraine - MP Kniazhytskyi

13 November, 2024 Wednesday
13:03

No one knows how the future Trump administration will actually act, but Ukraine needs to continue to defend the country from Russian aggression

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UNIAN reports.

Rumors about the so-called “peace plans” of future U.S. President Donald Trump do not change Russia's intention to destroy Ukraine, participants of the International Forum for Central and Eastern Europe VIA CARPATIA 2024 are convinced.

In particular, Mykola Kniazhytskyi, chairman of the Subcommittee on Cultural Policy of the Ukrainian Parliament's Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy, noted that there are many myths about the United States.

“One of them is that the United States will pursue an isolationist policy. We need to see whether this isolationist policy will apply to the whole world or just to Ukraine. Because I do not believe that the United States will not be involved in what will happen in Southeast Asia - in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and this region,” Kniazhytskyi said.

The lawmaker has great hope that the so-called US isolationism, which is being discussed, will not apply to Ukraine. 

He also added that Senator Marco Rubio, Trump's likely nominee for the next secretary of state, was the US co-chair of the international organization on China, which opposes restrictions on democracy in China. Kniazhytskyi represents Ukraine in this organization. 

At the same time, there are other issues that need to be addressed when discussing future US policy under the new president. Among them are the role of the United States in NATO and how much responsibility Europe will assume for the sustainability of its structures. 

“We hear a lot of different plans being announced regarding Ukraine and the negotiations that Donald Trump will initiate. Former Trump advisers often talk about these negotiations: forget about your territories, let's negotiate, you will not be in NATO, but you will give up your territories. Obviously, the most important thing for us is to preserve our state, and obviously, we have to proceed from our realities,” Kniazhytskyi said.

At the same time, he explained how Ukraine's allies in Central and Eastern Europe should respond to such statements.   

“Each of them understands that a betrayal of basic democratic principles in relation to Ukraine today will cause the same betrayal in relation to them tomorrow, and that is why it is extremely important for us to hope for their support and receive their support,” the MP added.

In his opinion, leadership will play a major role in everything that will happen now.

He is grateful to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk for his intention to discuss support for Ukraine with the leaders of the UK and France. In his opinion, Poland is demonstrating real and great leadership in this very difficult situation.

At the same time, the MP is convinced that the United States will remain democratic and its leadership in the world will be preserved, because it is unprofitable for the USA to lose this leadership.

“I am often asked by journalists how Ukraine feels about what they call peace initiatives, although we don't know them, it's all just rumors. What is Ukraine's attitude to this position or another? I always have an answer to this: what is Putin's position on all these proposals? It seems to me that Putin both wanted and still wants to destroy Ukraine as a state, to restore the Soviet Union and to restore his influence on those states that were once part of the Warsaw Pact. And these desires of Putin's are unchanged,” Kniazhytskyi added.

At the same time, he says that we can talk about the influence of the United States and the possible impact on oil prices, about the possible weakening of the Russian Federation because of this influence and thus pushing the Russians to negotiate. “But we do not know how this will actually happen. That is why we have no other choice but to continue defending our country,” emphasized Kniazhytskyi.

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