Stoltenberg’s proposal to cede Ukrainian territories to Russia

According to RCO News Agency, Jens Stoltenberg, the former Secretary General of NATO, during an ierview with the Financial Times newspaper, in response to a question about what solution he would suggest to Ukrainian Preside Volodymyr Zelensky, made a historical comparison and stated: “Finland in 1939 He fought against the Soviet Union and inflicted losses on the Red Army. The war ended with ceding 10 perce of Finland’s territory to the Soviets, but they instead established secure borders.

The former Secretary General of NATO, who handed over his position to former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte last week, by drawing such an analogy, indirectly conveyed the message that Ukraine can also cede some of its territories to Russia to secure its borders.

Since the 2024 US presideial election has cast a deep shadow over this war, the former US preside and Republican Party candidate Donald Trump has repeatedly called for an end to this war and promised to do so before the inauguration if he becomes preside. will do; An action that many commeators, analysts and Western media speculate that it will probably be done by handing over Ukrainian territories to Russia, but this solution is not very popular with the preside of Ukraine and he was to receive weapons and funds to coinue the war against Russia.

Expressing regret of the former NATO Secretary General

Stoltenberg we on to express his regret for not sending more weapons to Ukraine and said: “If there’s one thing I regret, it’s that we should have se more military aid to Ukraine much sooner.” . I think we all have to admit that we should have se more weapons to Ukraine before the attack, and we should have se more advanced weapons to Ukraine more quickly after the attack. I acknowledge my negligence in this regard.

He added: “Sending deadly weapons was the main conversation. Many of the Allies were against sending them ahead of the attack, fearing the consequences. “I’m proud of what we’ve done, but if we’d started earlier, it would have been much better and maybe even preveed the attack or at least made it more difficult for Russia.”

Russian Preside Vladimir Putin and other senior officials of this coury have repeatedly warned, citing the statemes of the Russian Preside, that the sending of NATO weapons to the war in Ukraine will turn this military alliance io the other side of the conflict, and they have requested NATO member couries as well as the United States. to refrain from pumping military aid to Kiev because such an action would only prolong the war in Ukraine.

Jens Stoltenberg said about Russia’s consta requests not to send weapons: “For days and weeks, especially at the beginning of the war, we constaly talked and consulted about issues related to Russia’s red lines. Of course, you have to be patie and think that maybe this is very dangerous, but to consider cutting off support to Ukraine as an alternative because of some rhetoric is not really such an option.”

By making such a claim that Russia has not taken action to cross its red lines, he said: “I have crossed all the so-called red lines set by Putin and we have crossed many of them, but he has not taken any action.” So far, all this has been just a bluff.”

These statemes of the former NATO Secretary General were made while the realities of the battlefield tell a differe story. Although the West has provided huge weapons and funds to the Ukrainian army, the same army and the preside of this coury have repeatedly acknowledged Ukraine’s “weakness and tense situation” on the battlefield, as well as Russia’s superiority in weapons, and they have not been able to make any achievemes even in the unexpected attack on Kursk” of Russia. In addition to these cases, Ukraine has long demanded the use of long-range weapons to attack the depth of Russian soil, but Preside Biden is afraid of the escalation of tensions and a direct confroation with Russia; One of those red lines that the West cannot cross.

Stoltenberg’s freque meetings with KGB officer

In an ierview with the Financial Times, the former NATO Secretary General admitted to meeting a KGB officer and said: “I have done nothing to be ashamed of because the meeting was just a business lunch.”

Jens Stoltenberg stated about his coacts with the KGB: “It was very strange. “My father used to tell me that the only people you should be in coact with at the Russian embassy are the KGB people because those are the only people who have influence.”

Referring to the meetings of the 1980s while he was leading the “Youth Organization of the Labor Party” in Norway, he said: “I have done nothing to be ashamed of. But the whole story is that they would invite me to lunch and I would have a shrimp sandwich table with someone named Krylov once a moh at a restaura in Oslo. “He was undoubtedly a KGB officer.”

In 1991, Norway’s couerielligence service asked Stoltenberg to help the service hu down Krylov, but the former NATO secretary general refused to do so.

The difficulties of working with Trump

“I don’t like to use the word manage, but the first thing I did after the results of the 2016 election was announced was to tell my team not to do it now,” Jens Stoltenberg said, referring to the presidency of Donald Trump. make jokes and play pranks; Rather, we should treat the preside of the United States with respect despite our disagreemes with him.”

He said: “We remember that some allies said that we should surrender and not participate and hide from opinions for four years, and some even said that we might not have any more NATO meetings, but I did the opposite and made a decision. “Whether 10 perce or 90 perce of NATO collapses under Trump, it doesn’t change anything, and I did what I had to do.”

Donald Trump, the former preside of the United States and the candidate for the 2024 presideial election of this coury, who is going to compete with Kamala Harris, the curre vice preside of the United States and the candidate of the Democratic Party, previously revealed the decisions and possibilities of withdrawing from the NATO alliance. .

The Western media have quoted several NATO member diplomats many times in the last few mohs and have written that if Donald Trump wins the presideial election, NATO will face the risk of the United States withdrawing from this alliance.

Offer to Ukraine

Referring to the first days of the war in Ukraine, the former NATO Secretary General said: “When the war broke out, NATO warned that Kiev would fall in a few days. If Kiev had fallen, the eire war would have been very differe. I met Zelensky for the first time in June 2019. He was inexperienced and asked superficial questions, but I didn’t think he would become a war leader. “In the beginning, he strongly requested to declare a no-fly zone, but I opposed it and I do not regret it, because NATO’s approach is to support Ukraine, not to become part of the conflict.”

Stoltenberg clarified: “Ukraine still needs to decide on the timing of negotiations. But we must also provide them with the conditions so that they can sit at the negotiating table with the Russian side; A situation where they can survive as an independe coury.”

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