And this “wonderful” plan will be seen as a victory by Putin and all of Russia.
Putin will proceed on the basis of this huge show of weakness by the West to rearm. When the time is right, in a few months after or a few years after, Putin will proceed to take the rest of Ukraine and move on to the Baltics, Poland and, as Russian milbloggers have stated, to take the rest of Europe.
A laid out, this will be a huge blunder by 47. And set the world into a prolong period of instability, with a newly emboldened China and Iran.
This plan is certainly a huge Russian win. It will have to be sold as something different, but Europe will never agree with all this — and Trump doesn’t care about them.
It would be useful for those sure Russia plans to invade all of Europe to lay out the advantages to Russia for doing this. They are filled with Muslim refugees. They have no oil outside of Norway and Norway’s oil is dying. Ditto gas.
They could resume buying Russian gas, but that would be done with Euro’s created whimsically by the ECB. Not sure those have any value to Russia.
So again, there is no apparent value to Russia to own Europe. Negative value.
Then there is the issue of who in Ukraine could sign such a deal. Term expired etc etc.
Interesting plan. Zelensky’s opinion of it probably doesn’t matter, given that expired term.