{"id":589927,"date":"2023-09-05T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fears-of-peace-talks-with-putin-rise-amid-us-squabbling\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T10:00:00","slug":"fears-of-peace-talks-with-putin-rise-amid-us-squabbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fears-of-peace-talks-with-putin-rise-amid-us-squabbling\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fears of peace talks with Putin rise amid US squabbling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/GettyImages-1252006056.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WARSAW, Poland \u2014 Eastern European countries are raising alarm over Ukraine potentially being pushed into peace talks with Russia, amid growing partisanship in Washington, hesitation and delays in weapons supplies to Kyiv and waning public support.<\/p>\n<p>While President Biden and other allies have promised to support Ukraine \u201cfor as long as it takes,\u201d the countries bordering Russia and Belarus \u2014 considered a puppet state for Russian President Vladimir Putin \u2014 argue that international partners need to lay out a path for a decisive victory for Kyiv.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWhat do we need to do? Plan for Ukrainian victory. Not plan to stand with Ukraine \u2018as long as it needs, as long as it requires,\u2019\u201d Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergi said during a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CKweRhW2hmg&amp;ab_channel=Comisi%C3%B3nEuropeaenEspa%C3%B1a\">conference in Spain<\/a> last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlan for victory, they need to win, they need to win for us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is making slow, but significant progress against Russia\u2019s occupying forces in a second counteroffensive that was launched in June, more than a year and a half since Putin launched the full-scale invasion of the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Ukraine\u2019s most hawkish supporters are concerned that battles in Washington over the 2024 budget, Republican in-fighting over military and economic aid for Kyiv, and creeping negativity among the U.S. public towards ongoing support will give the impression of waning American support and increase pressure for Ukrainians to negotiate with Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Statements from Republican presidential candidates,\u00a0 including frontrunner former President Trump, calling for the U.S. to directly negotiate with Putin and relegating the war to a territorial dispute are compounding those concerns among NATO-member states that are on the frontline of the eastern flank with Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with a small group of journalists in Warsaw at the end of August, head of the Polish National Security Bureau Jacek Siewier\u0105 said Putin is determined to make a \u201cnew global order,\u201d and would not be contained by a supposed peace deal in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThis confrontation with the West, from the side of Russia, is probably a structural shift or development\u2026 It will last for a long period of time. It won\u2019t stop with a ceasefire,\u201d Siewier\u0105 continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis confrontation is something that Russia is treating as a pre-positioning for a new global order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has insisted that any deal must pressure Putin into a full retreat of Ukrainian territory and security guarantees that would deter and repel any future Russian aggression.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The U.S. and other backers say that only Ukraine can decide when the moment is right for Kyiv to enter peace negotiations. But that orthodoxy is being challenged in the U.S. by figures like Trump and fellow GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who wants to cede Ukrainian territory to Putin as part of a proposal to break the Russia-China alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But for Poland and the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, engaging Putin for talks is a red line. And they say Ukraine\u2019s supporters must prepare for scenarios where Putin is isolated completely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One Baltic official, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic, told The Hill that Baltic states are concerned that pushing Ukraine into negotiations will have dangerous ripple effects throughout the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>All of this then increases the threat on NATO\u2019s borders. Putin would be able to sell negotiations as a \u2018victory,\u2019 and would help him exert even greater political influence globally \u2013 we already see it in Africa, in Niger, and South Africa. It\u2019s not only a military threat but a diplomatic one too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official said peace talks and a ceasefire would give Putin the motivation, and free up resources, to turn towards threatening other bordering states, such as in the Russian-occupied territories of Georgia and Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArmenia would also be in Putin\u2019s cross hairs,\u201d the official warned, and described Belarus as \u201cnot a sovereign state.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Poland and the Baltics are on heightened alert over potential threats on their borders with Russia and Belarus, which is under the control of Putin ally and long-time authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These countries have accused Lukashenko since 2021 of sending migrants largely from the Middle East to their borders to manufacture a humanitarian and political crisis, and have previously considered invoking Article 4 of NATO\u2019s treaty \u2013 which would convene the alliance to discuss concerns over \u201cthe territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s Border Guard said in early August that they had recorded at least 19,000 people so far this year trying to cross the border illegally from Belarus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Putin and Lukahsenko have also boasted of nuclear weapons being moved to Belarus. Following a failed rebellion earlier this summer, thousands of members of Russia\u2019s Wagner private military company have also relocated to Belarus, triggering Poland and the Baltics to increase their own troop presence on the border.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve closed some land crossings but have threatened to seal the border if they feel their security is at risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe emphasize that we treat the actions taken by Russia and Belarus, which cooperates with it, as intentional attempts to destabilize the situation in the region,\u201d the interior ministers of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia said in a joint statement on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The death last month of Putin\u2019s ally-turned-traitor Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group, in a suspected Kremlin-backed assassination, did not change the security situation markedly for the Baltics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Siewier\u0105, the top Polish national security official, said the joint statement by Polish and Baltic warnings of border closures is one concrete step to protect against \u201cpotential infiltration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo governments who are neighboring Belarus and Russia are expressing very openly that they don\u2019t accept any form of provocations, any form of hostile activity on their borders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. and European officials view Putin as determined to stay the course of his war in Ukraine with the goal of bringing it under the Kremlin\u2019s control. They believe the Russian leader still believes he can outlast the will of Ukrainian society and its international backers, and further survive any internal conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Putin] really still believes he\u2019s going to win this thing\u2026 He\u2019s in it for the long term\u2026 his view is that the West doesn\u2019t have the stomach,\u201d a U.S. Department of Defense official in Europe told The Hill in an interview in mid-August.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s our view of \u2018the Putin view\u2019 and those around him, is that things are messy\u2026 things don\u2019t always work out exactly. But we\u2019re staying the course.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For some in Europe, that paints a worrying contrast with the U.S., which is showing growing signs of war fatigue. While a broad majority in Congress have continued to support Ukraine aid, a spending fight over President Biden\u2019s latest request for $24 billion in supplemental funding for Ukraine will show whether far-right skepticism is starting to seep into the Republican mainstream.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The leading candidates in the Republican primary also <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear to be staking out a position consistent with GOP voters, the majority of which say the U.S. should stop sending money to Ukraine. An Aug. 4 CNN poll found 71 percent of Republicans oppose additional financial support for Ukraine\u2019s war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>European officials were reluctant to speak publicly about their concerns about political developments in the U.S. But they were anxious to warn of the dangers of any efforts to engage with Putin as a good-faith actor.<\/p>\n<p>Michal Baranowski, managing director of the German Marshall Fund East and based in Warsaw, said the looming U.S. presidential election is \u201ca very real concern\u201d for NATO\u2019s eastern flank countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point I\u2019m entirely convinced that this administration is not going to push Ukrainians into early negotiations,\u201d he said, but added that it\u2019s an open question as to what extent the Biden administration will be able to continue to provide the same high level of military aid given the debates over the budget, the slowness of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, and ahead of the 2024 campaigns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Ukrainians were sweeping [the counteroffensive], it would probably be politically easier to maintain support,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Poland and the Baltics have staked out the most hawkish positions on confronting Russia. Their populations can reflect back to one, or two generations, for stark examples of Russian \u2013 then-Soviet \u2013 cruelty. The Baltic cultures and identities were criminalized under occupation, with exile to Siberia was a common punishment for dissidents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to engaging with Putin, officials here point to remarks in September 2022 by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, who said that warnings by Poland and the Baltics were proven right that the Russian leader could not be trusted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is happening to Ukrainians now, happened to Estonians in the 1940s and \u201850s,\u201d U.S. Ambassador to Estonia George Kent told The Hill, speaking while touring celebrations in P\u00e4rnu, Estonia on Aug. 20, marking the day it declared its independence in 1991 from the crumbling Soviet Union.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think that is why the reaction has been so forthright, so clear-eyed and uncompromising. 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