Ukraine is well advised to push back hard and not leave any doubts that this surrender paper is dead in the water by countering it with a new peace proposal.

This whole episode reveals that the current US negotiating team is completely out of its depth and that people involved in this „negotiations“ are absolute amateurs to say the least.

I'm looking forward to the part where Ukraine says "no" to surrendering and it turns out Trump doesn't have any cards. Because refusing to sell weapons to your allies at profit just to punish Ukraine for not surrendering isn't a card.

This isn't peace. It's the celebration of aggression and power - the idea that violence pays and that those who are attacked should bear the consequences. Any plan built on rewarding the aggressor and weakening the victim doesn't stop wars. It ensures they return.

Worse, it actively enables future aggression. The aggressor is rewarded with territory it failed to capture, freed from sanctions, and given time to rebuild its military. The victim, meanwhile, is asked to accept restrictions, losses, and risks that undermine its own security.