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“European leaders and Ukraine’s allies issued a carefully worded warning to U.S. President Donald Trump early Tuesday over his lukewarm support for Kyiv, backing his call to halt fighting but rejecting any suggestion of territorial concessions to Moscow.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-allies-us-trump-yes-freezing-line-no-changing-borders-putin-russia/
“Ukraine shouldn’t have to give up territory as part of a peace deal with Russia, the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump pushed Kyiv to give up land to end the war.
“If we just give away the territories, then this gives a message to everybody that you can just use force against your neighbors and get what you want,” Kallas told journalists in Luxembourg after a meeting of foreign ministers. “I think this is very dangerous. That’s why we have the international law in place, [so] that nobody does that.”
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“What you can conquer back is one question, but the other question is also what do you recognize as the territory of another country?” said Kallas, a former prime minister of Estonia. “I come from a country that was occupied for 50 years, but [a] majority of the countries in the world didn’t recognize them to be Russian territories. And that also meant a lot.””
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-kaja-kallas-pushes-back-on-donald-trump-demand-ukraine-cede-territory-to-russia-vladimir-putin/
The Syrian Game of Thrones Gains Momentum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b0gW3io_iQ
“Vladimir Putin’s desire to grab Ukraine’s key defensive lines echoes how Adolf Hitler secured Czechoslovakia’s fortifications.
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“Ukraine has spent the last 11 years pouring time, money and effort into reinforcing the fortress belt and establishing significant defense industrial and defensive infrastructure in and around these cities,” the institute said.
If that happens, Russia would move its frontline roughly 80 kilometers further west, while Ukraine would be forced to build new defenses on flat and open terrain in neighboring Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk — far harder to hold than the fortified cities it controls now.
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In September 1938, Adolf Hitler argued that handing over the ethnic-German majority Sudetenland region to the Reich would satisfy his ambitions and end the threat of war in Europe. France and Britain agreed, and browbeat Prague into accepting. Hitler — whose word was as reliable as Putin’s — said he had no further territorial ambitions.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russia-war-in-ukraine-adolf-hitler-czechoslovakia/
A Genocide Scholar on the Case Against Israel | ‘The Opinions’ podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9oQ5iuEqtU
Russia took land from China, then ethnically cleansed the Chinese living there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rBRdzf1fYo
Trump is ruining our relationships with Canada and Greenland. Countries don’t like it when you say you’re gonna annex them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78LIqJG4wxE
Greenland is super valuable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8j2uWw3WfU
“In his inauguration address on Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump said his “proudest legacy” would be “that of a peacemaker.”
Moments later, Trump threatened to seize a portion of the sovereign territory of another country—specifically, the Panama Canal, a crucial link for global trade.”
https://reason.com/2025/01/20/trump-promises-to-be-a-peacemaker-threatens-panama/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ7HFVL8c1Q