If we ratify the seizure of land by another country, that will open Pandora’s box around the world for aggressors
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a new interview with NPR that Russia and its President Vladimir Putin are not ready for negotiations.
“Vladimir Putin has to give up on his notion that Ukraine is not its own country, that it needs to be erased from the maps and subsumed into Russia. He’s already failed at that. But he seems to continue to believe that that’s what he’s trying to achieve. And unless he’s disabused of that notion, it’s hard to see how peace can really move forward,” Blinken said.
He also said that any peace agreement would need to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity; otherwise, it would not be a “just peace and a durable peace.”
“If we ratify the seizure of land by another country and say ‘that’s okay, you can go in and take it by force and keep it,’ that will open a Pandora’s box around the world for would-be aggressors that will say, ‘Well, we’ll do the same thing and get away with it,’” Blinken added.
