I think today is fundamentally important. It is either extremely good news or extremely bad news — with very little in between. We don’t yet know, and it is almost certainly too early to say.
The good news would be that Donald Trump’s statements are an accurate reflection of what has happened: that he has spoken to Putin and Zelensky, and that he has the basis of a deal between the two which could lead to peace and an end to the deaths and destruction in Ukraine.
As he says, thousands of lives are being lost every week, and he believes what he has arranged will stop that and bring peace. He points out that he has succeeded in bringing peace to six wars already a point he made frequently.
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Jacob Rees Mogg shared his views on the summit
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If true, that would be very good news indeed, and it would make the world fundamentally safer.
If Russia is no longer a risk to the rest of the world, if there is peace in Ukraine, and if Ukraine’s territory is fundamentally respected, those are the big “ifs.”
On the other hand, this could become one of the biggest failures of Western diplomacy in our lifetimes.
The risk is that this amounts to a victory for Putin, that he does not quietly accept a peace treaty cobbled together by defence forces that nobody takes seriously.
The risk is that Putin, the wolf at the door, realises that if he huffs and puffs hard enough, the door will give way and there are little pigs inside he can get at.
'The risk is that Putin, the wolf at the door, realises that if he huffs and puffs hard enough, the door will give way'
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That is the danger: that once again a dictator has been appeased, and that dictator will go further and continue to threaten peace.
It is telling that the Finnish president was there. Finland knows all too well the dangers that come from Russia — not just in recent times, but over the centuries.
It has joined Nato, and it is well resourced with its own military to defend itself from Russian aggression.
So that is where we are.
You have listened to Ursula von der Leyen, which I think is noble of all of you who have stayed this long.
But what was said, at least by President Trump and President Zelensky, is of fundamental importance.
The future of peace in the world is at stake, and we are trying to work out whether this is good news or bad.
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