The President of Finland, Alexander Stubb, outlined today in Kyiv the facts that must be realized in any potential peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. They are as follows:
1. Ukraine’s EU membership is for the European Union to decide, not Russia.
2. Ukraine’s NATO membership is for NATO to decide, not Russia.
3. Russia cannot decide on territories that belong to Ukraine or define its borders.
4. Russia cannot determine Europe’s security order, as it already exists.
All of these are, of course, self-evident facts that no serious politician would dispute. And that is why bringing them up would be unnecessary if every relevant party had common sense.
Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the case, and even the most obvious facts must be reiterated time and time again. It remains to be seen whether the so-called top politicians of the world still include those with severe shortcomings in their understanding, revealing their intellectual limitations by advocating ideas that contradict the Finnish president’s list.
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In a hard place, we'll find what kind of fabric the politician is made of.
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