Angela Stent on Secret Ukraine, US, Allies Meeting

Angela Stent, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, discusses a Bloomberg report stating a secret meeting took place in December between Ukraine, its G7 allies, and a small group of Global South countries to gain support to potentially create peace talks with Russia. She also talks about the ongoing debate the US government is having on Ukraine funding and what the possibility of no additional support could mean for the country. Angela speaks with Kailey Leinz and Joe Mathieu on Bloomberg's "Balance of Power."
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[jk]

When Russia was engaged in the negotiations with Ukraine back in March 2022 with Israel and Turkey as the mediators, the West persuaded Ukraine to continue the war

[breecedjpancake]

The meeting is so secret that the Brookings Institution was informed of it!

[PJP]

The only agreement is for Unconditional surrender. For Ukraine. Russia will dictate all the terms.

[zeerocool]

What is the purpose of a conversation with G7 and UA about a peace plan that RU would not accept? How do these meetings matter?

[hb]

I hope Russia will KEEP WHAT THEY WERE FORCED TO FIGHT FOR!

[dsliao]

Provocation is “action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry, especially deliberately”

[mindbanx]

Here's what's really y going on:
..."humanitarian wars"; "color revolutions"; "regime change"; "national security interests"; coalition of the willing; "exceptional nation"; "indispensible nation"; "democracy"; American "values"; "rules based international order"; "thousand points of light"; "strategic partners in peace"; "Minsk was a ruse"; "unprovoked war of aggression"; "... until the last Ukrainian... as long as it takes"; "NATO is a 'defensive' alliance; "Ukraine sabotaged Nordstream?!!"; "Putin wants to reconstitute the Soviet Union"; "Israel is not committing genocide"??!! ...

... Wolfowitz doctrine; Bush doctrine; Project for a New American Century (PNAC); WMD's; Nuland: "F the EU" ..

... Iraq I & II; Afghanistan; Libya; Syria; Yemen; Somalia; Sudan; ... Ukraine; Israel; and, coming soon to a theatre of war near you: China, North Korea, & Iran ...

... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Mai Lai; Dresden; Tokyo; Abu Ghrab; Guantamano; Hiroshima; Korea; Vietnam; Cambodia; Nicaragua; Panama; Venezuela;

... Nordstream sabotage (greatest environmental terrorism event in history); extra judicial drone strikes; depleted uranium rounds; Ukrainian biolabs; CIA black sites; "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"; Fast and Furious; Iran-Contra;

... US has at least 850 military bases in at least 70+ countries; whose military budget is bigger than the next 10 countries including Russia and China; it has interfered in a minimum of 117 global elections since WW2; executed 48 coups; dropped 2 atomic bombs; 

... RAND Corp.; Atlantic Council; Council on Foreign Relations; Trilateral Commission;

... DARPA; Lockheed Martin; Boeing; Raytheon; General Dynamics; Northrop Grumman; Blackrock; Goldman Sachs; J.P. Morgan; Google; Microsoft, ... all have deals with Ukraine.

[midwesttraveler]

Ukraine became independent in 1991, not 92 🙄

[dirgsuite]

How wars work: The country that takes and holds more terrain than the other wins. How negotiations work: The country that runs out of ammo and soldiers wants talks to avoid total defeat. How the people in this video thinks it works: Regardless of who occupies what, we execute the Zelensky peace plan. Russia is not invited but must silently agree. The bright mind that invents all this is Author of the book: 'Putin's world'. She must have missed something.

[blackcamel]

"Begin a process of negotiation that wouldn't lead anywhere, where they would be seen to make an effort right into Putins reelection in march"
Hmm, who else could that apply to?

[galvk]

Russia should negotiate for several years, reach an agreement and after that violate it. Just as Ukraine did.

[joshuapaul]

Zelenskyy is running out of cannon fodder. Western allies are running out of ammo. Zelenskyy offensive proved to be an epic unmitigated disaster. Russians rejected any freeze of the conflict. Putin spokesperson said quite bluntly that all Russian goals had to be met (denazification, demilitarization and a neutral status of Ukraine). At this point unconditional surrender is the only practical solution for Ukraine. Hitler's Germany also refused to admit defeat until Hitler killed himself, then Keitel signed unconditional surrender.

[JamesFinn-ifdl]

Ukraine is already lost. Time to cut their losses and negotiate .

[JohnCSmith-lpqr]

Better negotiate. now or lose more territory Duh 🙄

[เจนทัศน์เชวงเศรษฐกุล]

Peace plan can do by yourselves not care for other side. Will peace exist?

[mho]

What joke Ukraine peace plan without getting Russia involved.

[daniekhitsane]

He is a lie Ukraine is not fighting for anyone

[CindyRe]

On "maybe" you develop plan B, not plan A, Madam!

[sayedibrahimameermeea]

😂😂😂 Russians not invited? Invite Kim from N Korea then

[StephenGlencross-ygnt]

If Russia defeats Ukraine they will get rid of all those in Ukraine who opposed them, many sodiers political people will go missing. So it is not a case of should the west continue giving weapons etc the west really have to . Got to show no weakness against Russia.