Posted on 01/11/2026 3:37:02 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
It is now up to Russia to show it is interested in peace, after Kyiv and its allies agreed on a peace plan and security guarantees that would take effect following a ceasefire, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said.
Speaking to reporters, she said the peace plan was the 20-point proposal that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy discussed with U.S. President Donald Trump at the end of last year.
She added that, alongside the plan, there were substantial, robust, and well-defined security guarantees for Kyiv from the United States and Europe. "Now, Russia has to show that they are interested in peace," von der Leyen said.
She said the security guarantees would rely first on Ukraine's armed forces, which she said were well-trained and battle-experienced. It would be the task of the Europeans to make sure the Ukrainian army is also well equipped, she said.
The second line of defence would be the so-called Coalition of the Willing -- 35 states including most EU countries as well as Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey.
"Here it is very good that the Americans are involved, specifically in the verification and the monitoring, but also with a backstop," von der Leyen said. She said that the EU was working on plans to ensure Ukraine's economic prosperity after a ceasefire, with ideas to be spelled out in a forthcoming "prosperity paper". The document would set out measures for the short-term and over the next decade to boost Ukraine's economy and support its recovery.
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Oh, ursula, you so silly.
When oil gets to $50/bbl, Russia may be forced to consider a peace treaty. They need oil to be higher to finance their war machine.
Psst, Ursula - let me save you some time: they don’t.
Russia has all the cards.
Or maybe Trump will just seize all their oil tankers - then they won’t have any revenue at all.
“When oil gets to $50/bbl, Russia may be forced to consider a peace treaty. They need oil to be higher to finance their war machine.”
Hitler fought a war without much in the way of oil revenue.
President Jefferson Davis fought a war without much cotton revenue.
Putin doesn’t need to spend big money on expensive ships or airplanes - they’d only be sunk or shot down.
Drones are fairly cheap.
And so corrupt....
What an idiotic notion.
If Russia wanted peace they wouldn’t have invaded.
If Russia wanted peace they would just go home.
FU EU
Seems reasonable to presume that a strong pro-Russia government in Kiev would lead to Russia ceasing actions against infrastructure, especially if the govt disarms.
This is why unlocking the Venezuela oil market is a globally brilliant move.
It applied massive geopolitical pressure to every single rival of America. From Iran to China to Russia the lower oil prices of unlocked Venezuelan oil are crippling.
This babbling Euro-wench is why women weren’t allowed to vote, much less occupy key leadership positions.
F the EU and Putin.
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And we are still years and years behind for what Russia and China already has, and quite likely never will catch up because they are advancing at the same time. I can see huge cost "overruns" already.
Uh, no. Russia leads the world in natural resources, valued at $75 trillion and rising.
Uh, yes. Their oil is worth only as much as what someone is willing to pay for it.
Lol, the examples you cited both lost their wars. Lack of fuel doomed Hitler and Davis and the Confederacy went broke as their Cotton fields lay in ruin.
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