“We want to end the war in Ukraine so that it doesn’t start again in 2-4 years,” said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in an interview with CBS Mornings.
Rubio’s direct speech: “The conflict must end, and it is the policy of the United States to see it end. We want to do everything we can to help it end. We’re going to make an effort to make sure that this conflict ends in a stable way, meaning that we don’t just want the conflict to end and then resume in two, three or four years. We want to ensure stability.”
Marco Rubio emphasized that Ukraine is currently paying the highest price for its energy infrastructure, “for the people and lives that have been lost, for the millions of Ukrainians who have been forced to leave their country and are living abroad.”
Experience has shown that peace between states is effectively maintained when the aggressor realizes that it will not achieve its goal by military invasion or threats of invasion. When a potential aggressor realizes that political goals will not be achieved and the consequences of an attempted military invasion could be catastrophic, no attack takes place.
Banal promises (political commitments) do not work. The Budapest Memorandum is a case in point. Ukraine gave up all its nuclear weapons, both tactical and strategic. The United States, Britain, China, and Russia assured Ukrainians that they would live in safety. But only 20 years later, the situation changed and all security guarantors were guided solely by their own interests.
Russia started the war against Ukraine in 2014. In the first invasion, Putin seized the Crimean region in the south and parts of Luhansk and Donetsk regions in the east. The second invasion began in 2022 and continues to this day.
Under what conditions can lasting peace be ensured? Only if there is a large number of weapons to protect!
If President-elect Donald Trump really wants to end the war, Ukraine’s availability of sufficient long-range and precision missiles will quickly cool Putin’s fervent intentions to restore the Soviet Union.
