France’s Sarkozy Pilloried by Madmen in Ukraine for Suggesting Compromise
He suggested that Europe needs to think for itself because its interests “are not aligned with American interests.”
Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, said in an interview that the Ukraine War will only be resolved through diplomacy and rejected the idea that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a madman bent on world domination.
He told Le Figaro that at the end of the day, Europe needs Russia and Russians need Europe.
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“Russia is a neighbor of Europe and will remain so,” he said. He suggested that Europe needs to think for itself because its interests “are not aligned with American interests.”
“We cannot stick to the strange idea of ‘fighting a war without fighting,’” he said, according to RT, the Russian news outlet.
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Sarkozy said Ukraine should remain a neutral country and not a member of NATO and said the West should recognize Crimea as Russian. He gave a history lesson and noted that Crimea was part of Russia until 1954 and “where a majority of the population has always felt Russian. I think any step back is illusory.”
He continued to talk about the land that Russia now controls as the southern part of the country.
“If the Ukrainians do not completely manage to win them back, then the choice will be between a frozen conflict – which we know will inevitably lead tomorrow to a new hot conflict – or we can come out on top by resorting, again, to referendums strictly supervised by the international community to settle these territorial questions in a definitive way,” he said.
“Without compromise, nothing will be possible and we run the risk that the situation will degenerate at any moment. This powder keg could have frightful consequences,” he said, while calling Putin’s invasion a “failure.”
Kyiv fired back at the idea.
Mykhailo Podolyak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnky’s chief adviser, posted on X: The fantastic criminal logic of former French President @NicolasSarkozy, in which he justifies Russia's wars of aggression, has once again exposed one of the fundamental causes of today's war. It was the encouragement by Western leaders of Putin's criminal plans to seize foreign lands in 2008 and especially in 2014 that contributed to the beginning of full-scale aggression in Europe and the mass murder of Ukrainians. Sarkozy's encouragement is a direct complicity in a years-long crime.
He continued, “In 2023, it is inadmissible to repeat the "experience of Sarkozy," who deliberately participated in a criminal conspiracy for Russia's seizure of Ukrainian territories and subsequent organization of a large-scale genocide and war.”
The knee-jerk reaction in Kyiv seems to show a regime that is growing desperate. We recently saw a similar reaction by Ukraine when Stian Jenssen, the chief of staff for NATO head Jens Stoltenberg, dared to suggest a possible way to end the fighting in Ukraine that included ceding land.
TRENDPOST: As we’ve long said, Ukraine will not win its fight against Russia and the sooner peace negotiations begin, the faster we can save the lives of thousands of brave Ukrainian men. The problem is the U.S. does not exit a conflict until it is fully a disaster, like Afghanistan. The Biden administration and the anti-Russian media is not ready to quit.