During press remarks yesterday, Joe Biden implied that Ukraine may need to cede territory in Eastern Ukraine to Russia as part of a “negotiated settlement.”
The statement came at the end of remarks centered around the May jobs report and Biden’s claim that U.S. consumers were in the best economic position of the past decade, therefore the government must begin increasing direct subsidies to offset energy costs and massive inflation pressure. When Biden was asked, “does Ukraine have to cede territory to achieve some peace?” he stated:
[Transcript] – [F]rom the beginning, I’ve said and I’ve been — not everyone has agreed with me — nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. It’s their territory. I’m not going to tell them what they should and shouldn’t do.
But it appears to me that, at some point along the line, there’s going to have to be a negotiated settlement here. And what that entails, I don’t know. I don’t think anybody knows at the time.
But in the meantime, we’re going to continue to put the — the Ukrainians in a position where they can defend themselves. Thank you all so very much. (link)
It has been obvious from the outset that annexing Eastern Ukraine, the region containing a majority pro-Russia population, was always the intended objective of Russian aggression. With Biden making this admission public, it raises the question then why did we agree to send $40 billion?
Russia’s hold on the Eastern Ukraine Donbas region is now essentially complete. This is the area that had been in a state of civil war since 2008, and the Russian annexation would essentially bring that conflict to an end.
Any Ukraine-Russia negotiation would come down to Ukraine acquiescing to the territory already lost. It’s not like Russia is going to give it back. The “negotiated settlement” amounts to the Ukraine and western NATO alliance admitting Russia has accomplished its intended objective.
It seems doubtful that Joe Biden sought approval from the U.S. State Dept, CIA and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, specifically those who are conducting this proxy war, prior to this statement.
Remarks at 18:13 of video. WATCH:
What a clown the Delaware Doofus is. We all knew that is all Russia wanted to begin with. I hope the criminal activity of our government is exposed.
As a wise elder used to say: “Wish in one hand and sh!t in the other…see which one fills up faster…”
Brandon’s got his $40 billion scam through, nothing left to play for, will throw Ukraine under a bus, or a Russian tank.
Sundance,
Why the $40 Billion? Clearly, to make up for the lack of grift under Trump’s watch. No more had these shirt birds sent the money then an announcement of U.S. missiles being purchased by Ukraine using some of the $40 Billion in a laundering cycle to the U.S. Corporate war machine.
$40 Billion will cycle back to those who sent it. Just as in our other “wars”. Indeed, the state has corporate interest as their priority.
Yes, my thoughts exactly!
Why should Ukraine be expected to surrender territory to Russia?
Their borders were internationally recognized BEFORE this aggression, and should be restored.
Anything less means that any tinpot dictator can invade and consume his neighbors WITH IMPUNITY.
Is THAT what the world has become?
The Crimea was Russian
(and mostly ethnic Russian in population) for centuries (even after Russia lost the Crimean War), and it provides them with a warm water seaport. Krushchev’s giving control of it to Ukraine was not all that significant at the time, since Ukraine was part of the USSR. The idea that Russia would ever cede actual control of it to another country was always a pipe dream.
“It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion, and we have to fight about what they have to do and not do, etc.”
Russia would possibly settle for independence or even a high degree of autonomy (which Ukraine hitherto ageeed upon but did not honor) for Eastern Ukraine. The Crimea, however, will be non-negotiably Russian, as it was for a few hundred years.