Tag: Ukraine war
Trump’s Peace Plan
It has taken a lot longer than I had hoped, but Trump finally presented a plan for peace between Russia and Ukraine. I am happy with it, as it aligns pretty closely with what I expected. I thought it would be worth going over some of the points in detail. The thing that Ukraine and …
Hegseth’s Peace Principles
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced some basic principles for peace in Ukraine, and it is the most sensible basis for negotiation that I have yet heard. He stated that both parties “must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective” and that “chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong …
More on the Ukraine War
Today I have to offer only 2 decidedly inferior works, but they are not entirely useless because they do focus in on what I believe to be the crucial point in the current international system: the Ukraine war and the threat of nuclear conflict. First we have an incredibly rambling and jargon-laden article titled “American …
Sovereignty, War, and Ukraine
The direct impetus for this post is another call for the “sovereignty” of the European Union by means of a common defense organization, pronounced by the head of the European Commission, Ursala von der Leyen, in May (https://www.army-technology.com/news/as-european-elections-near-defence-sovereignty-sought-in-peace-awards-speech/?cf-view). She gave a speech on the occasion of Macron’s acceptance of the Westphalia Peace Prize in which …
Papal Mediation
The war in Ukraine now has something in common with the Thirty Years’ War: the pope has offered to mediate. (I am speaking of “mediation” broadly here, in the sense of “acting as a go between”.) The papacy makes a likely mediator because it is not itself a political power. It made a lot more …