Blinken says no Ukraine cease-fire without Russia’s withdrawal

AP/Military Times via Yahoo ^ | June 2nd 2023 | Susie Blann and Matthew Lee, Associated Press

[Mariner]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says there can be no cease-fire in the war in Ukraine unless it is part of a “just and lasting” peace deal that includes Russia’s military withdrawal. Blinken said Friday that “a ceasefire that simply freezes current lines in place” and enabled Russian President Vladimir Putin to “rest, rearm, and re-attack” would not be “a just and lasting peace.” In a speech during a visit to Finland, Blinken said that Russia must also pay for part of Ukraine’s reconstruction and be held accountable for its full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February last year.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that a cease-fire in the war in Ukraine could not be declared unless it was part of a “just and lasting” peace deal that included Russia’s military withdrawal.

Blinken said that “a cease-fire that simply freezes current lines in place” and allowed Russian President Vladimir Putin “to consolidate control over the territory he has seized, and rest, rearm, and reattack — that is not a just and lasting peace.”

Russia must also pay a share of Ukraine’s reconstruction and be held accountable for launching its full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022, Blinken said in a speech during a visit to Finland, which recently joined NATO and shares a long border with Russia.

[kiryandil]

Some of the Ukie "bumper sticker slogan" boys and girls are trying to overrun the thread.

Your facts are stubborn things, though.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

The United States will continue to support Ukraine until the last Ukrainian is dead.

[A strike]

Oh there will be a ceasefire alright,
and not on terms to fool marionette Blinken’s or vampiress Nuland’s liking.

-fJRoberts-

[A strike]

And NATO can stop it’s 8 year provocation on Russia’s border.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Yeah…your lack of an answer says everything.

[caww]

Ukrainians have no vote either on their internal affairs - obviously.

[ganeemead]

The loser demanding that the winner surrender.....

[ought-six]

“Yeah…your lack of an answer says everything.”

I did answer. I gave you the full text of the Ukrainian constitution. That is the definitive source, in its entirety.

That you are too lazy to read it, and draw your own conclusion, speaks volumes.

[ought-six]

“And NATO can stop it’s 8 year provocation on Russia’s border.”

What 8-year provocation on Russia’s border? No one ever threatened Russia.

I swear, you pro-Russia apologists are like little girls: You let emotion and hyperbole control your arguments.

[A strike]

I swear you zeepers need to educate yourselves before shoveling the MSM/DeepState/Biden/Nuland/StateDept/CIA load of Schiff.

[dfwgator]

Fighting to the last Ukrainian.

[bert]

Meanwhile.......... Mother Russia has cancer

Russia is withering on the vine

[ganeemead]

Can anybody picture the Japanese or Germans telling us (in late spring or late summer of 1945) that we would have to abandon captured territory and pay reparations for a cease fire and that THEY would be determining conditions??

I mean, anybody in 45 would have assumed that there wasn't that much chutzpah in the world and that anybody on the axis side talking like that had just had too many bad experiences in life recently had had gone completely batshit crazy.

Nonetheless here in 2023, there actually IS that much chutzpah in the world. Tony Blinken actually has that much chutzpah.

Or is totally batshit crazy.... The only safe assumption to be had here is that the entire Biden admin is crazy.....

[Reeses]

poke it with a stick and see if it’s still alive ...

Ukraine Bear

If you wanna hang out, you've gotta take her out
Ukraine
If you wanna get down, down on the ground
Ukraine
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie
Ukraine

[x]

Shouldn’t the two countries involved be deciding this?

[1of10]

good one ...

Famous last words ...
poke it again sam

[ought-six]

Nice try, kid. I and many others here on FR are for Ukraine repelling the invader in spite of who our president is or who Ukraine’s president is.

But that is something you pro-Russia water-carriers can’t seem to grasp.

[A strike]

Yep ,
you and Bidementia, Osama, vampiress Nuland, Susan Rice, DeepState, CIA, Milley, Soros, Lindy, Bolton ... you know, all the best people see eye to eye on this.

(How’d you like that Nordstream II caper? Pretty slick, eh ?)

[ought-six]

“Yep, you and Bidementia, Osama, vampiress Nuland, Susan Rice, DeepState, CIA, Milley, Soros, Lindy, Bolton ... you know, all the best people see eye to eye on this.”

Not really. For one thing, they have no problem with Biden; but I do (recall my earlier comment that I want to see Ukraine repel its invader in spite of who our president is).

But, you and other pro-Russia cheerleaders seem to embrace the old Soviet dictum that if one is not 100% on board with the party (or, YOUR side in this subject), and one is only 99% on board (so 1% disagreement with the party, or YOUR side), then one is automatically a traitor or worse.

That, kid, is how totalitarians think. No wonder you embrace the Russian cause so much.

[A strike]

Your pride in your ignorance and illogic is amazing.
A simpleton, ahem, sees this as one dimensional situation with Only a one size fits all cause and solution.
This U.S. - Russia proxxy war was promulgated and is perpetuated by the deepstate you are supporting. Claiming Ukraine must repel its invader, (from Crimea, really?) as your holy grail and that is the only factor is single celled ‘thinking’.
Calling you out on it does not make me a pro-Russia cheerleader. I want a cease fire, not tens of thousands of new deaths satisfy your “as long as it takes” hallucination.

You still didn’t answer about how you liked that NordStream II caper. It really ‘hurt’ Russia. Too bad it was also an act of war against NATO ally Germany and severely hurt their energy sector.