Stoltenberg’s proposal to cede Ukrainian territories to Russia

According to RCO News Agency, Jens Stoltenberg, the former Secretary General of NATO, during an interview with the Financial Times newspaper, in response to a question about what solution he would suggest to Ukrainian President 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 percent 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 presidential election has cast a deep shadow over this war, the former US president 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 president. will do; An action that many commentators, 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 president of Ukraine and he wants to receive weapons and funds to continue the war against Russia.

Expressing regret of the former NATO Secretary General

Stoltenberg went 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 sent more military aid to Ukraine much sooner.” . I think we all have to admit that we should have sent more weapons to Ukraine before the attack, and we should have sent 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 prevented the attack or at least made it more difficult for Russia.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin and other senior officials of this country have repeatedly warned, citing the statements of the Russian President, that the sending of NATO weapons to the war in Ukraine will turn this military alliance into the other side of the conflict, and they have requested NATO member countries 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 constant requests not to send weapons: “For days and weeks, especially at the beginning of the war, we constantly talked and consulted about issues related to Russia’s red lines. Of course, you have to be patient 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 statements of the former NATO Secretary General were made while the realities of the battlefield tell a different story. Although the West has provided huge weapons and funds to the Ukrainian army, the same army and the president of this country 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 achievements 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 President Biden is afraid of the escalation of tensions and a direct confrontation with Russia; One of those red lines that the West cannot cross.

Stoltenberg’s frequent meetings with KGB officer

In an interview 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 contacts with the KGB: “It was very strange. “My father used to tell me that the only people you should be in contact 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 month at a restaurant in Oslo. “He was undoubtedly a KGB officer.”

In 1991, Norway’s counterintelligence service asked Stoltenberg to help the service hunt 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 president of the United States with respect despite our disagreements 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 percent or 90 percent of NATO collapses under Trump, it doesn’t change anything, and I did what I had to do.”

Donald Trump, the former president of the United States and the candidate for the 2024 presidential election of this country, who is going to compete with Kamala Harris, the current vice president 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 months and have written that if Donald Trump wins the presidential 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 entire war would have been very different. 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 independent country.”

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