Nearly Half of Americans Want U.S. to Push Ukraine to Seek Peace, Even if it Means Giving up Land: Poll
Nearly Half of Americans Want U.S. to Push Ukraine to Seek Peace, Even if it Means Giving up Land: Poll
A recent poll showed nearly half of Americans surveyed want Washington to stop pushing for more war in Ukraine and start pushing for Kyiv to sit down for peace negotiations, even if it means giving up land to Russia to achieve an end to the fighting.
The Ipsos poll was conducted by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and found 47 percent of Americans want negotiations to begin, which is noticeable increase from July, when 38 percent held the opinion. The poll was conducted from 18-20 November.
The vast majority of Americans still support weapon transfers and sanctions against Russia, but the poll now showed a divide on “whether the United States should support Ukraine as long as it takes or if it should urge Kyiv to settle for peace as soon as possible.”
As we’ve extensively documented, any mention of peace has been banned in the media.
Nicholas Kristof, the columnist for The New York Times, penned an article today titled, “Are We in the West Weaker Than Ukrainians.” He argued that the Americans seeking a peaceful settlement must “gladden the heart” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The fundamental misconception among many congressional Republicans (and some progressives on the left) is that we’re doing Ukraine a favor by sending it weapons. Not so. We are holding Ukraine’s coat as it is sacrificing lives and infrastructure in ways that benefit us, by degrading Russia’s military threat to NATO and Western Europe — and thus to us, he wrote.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in April that the U.S. hoped to see Russia “weakened” as a military power after the conflict. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said one month earlier that “Russia has already lost.”
President Joe Biden said in July during a visit to Israel that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine must be a “strategic failure” for his counterpart Vladimir Putin.
“Putin’s assault on Ukraine is a challenge to the peace and stability everywhere in the world,” Biden said last week after a meeting with Yair Lapid, the Israeli Prime Minister and that “Putin’s war must be a strategic failure.”
We’ve noted that any talk of peace or ceding land to Russia is not tolerated in the West.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who became an icon in the Western media due to the government-corporate media complex, shot down Henry Kissinger’s idea that Kyiv should cede land to Russia in order to achieve peace in the country.
Zelensky said Kissinger, the 98-year-old former secretary of state, emerged from the “deep past” and that his calendar is “not 2022, but 1938,” a clear reference to the Nazi Germany.
Kissinger’s comments follow nonagenarian Noam Chomsky’s earlier statements about the dangers of a prolonged conflict in Ukraine. Chomsky, correctly, stated earlier this month that Ukrainian leadership’s cry for more heavy weapons is actually the Western “propaganda system.”
French President Emmanuel Macron, one of the West’s only leaders still in touch with Putin, was roundly criticized for talking about steps to achieve peace with Russia, and mentioning that there may need to be security guarantees. Russia sees NATO expansion as an existential threat.
Macron was also mocked when he said it would be dangerous to embarrass Putin on the battlefield.
“We must not humiliate Russia so that the day when the fighting stops we can build an exit ramp through diplomatic means. I am convinced that it is France's role to be a mediating power,” he said.
Dmitro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister who admitted that Kyiv struck targets inside Russia in a prank call, took to Twitter and posted, “Calls to avoid humiliation of Russia can only humiliate France and every other country that would call for it.”
Kristof mentioned in his column that there are those that want peace and are concerned about the war spiraling our of control. He mentioned Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
But he wrote, “bowing to nuclear blackmail and rewarding an invasion would create their own risks for many years to come, and on balance those dangers seem greater than those of maintaining the present course.”
We’ve noted that Milley once provided a sober assessment about Ukraine and said said Ukraine accomplished everything that it could have hoped against such a larger adversary, and that now may be its last, best chance to negotiate.
“We’ve seen the Ukrainian military fight the Russian military to a standstill. Now, what the future holds is not known with any degree of certainty, but we think there are some possibilities here for some diplomatic solutions,” he said in an interview with CNBC.
Days later, he changed his tune and said Russia has lost.
“They’ve lost strategically, they’ve lost operationally and, I repeat, they’ve lost tactically,” he said. “What they’ve tried to do, they’ve failed at. The strategic reframing of their objectives, of their illegal invasion, have all failed, every single one of them.”
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I would like to see Zelenskyy's murderous soul dispatched back to God for Judgement.