Jake Sullivan: No Peace Negotiations

Dec. 17, 2022 (EIRNS)—It is not yet time for Ukraine to negotiate with Russia, contends U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, in an interview yesterday at the Carnegie Endowment think tank. He discerns that the time is not “ripe.”

“We don’t know where this is going to end up. What we do know is that it’s our job to continue to sustain our military support to Ukraine, so they are in the best possible position on the battlefield, so that if and when the diplomacy is ripe, they will be in the best possible position at the negotiating table. That moment is not ripe now.”

According to Sullivan, Ukraine has won a series of battles, “repelled the Russian invaders from most of the country,” and is now “fighting to reclaim the remaining land.” This is the language of a man prepared to bleed Ukraine indefinitely.

Another such like-minded fellow, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy told France’s LCI television channel that, indeed, he is being “nudged” towards talks with Moscow: “There are those who are urging me to sit at the negotiating table. But I don’t see anything to discuss.” Further, he offered that any negotiations that French President Macron might pursue with Russia’s President Putin was a waste of time: “I don’t think they can produce any result.”