Can Zelensky's 'victory plan' bring peace to Ukraine? | Europe In :60

Is Zelensky's finalized 'victory plan' realistic to bring peace to Ukraine? Why is there backlash against EU's anti-deforestation law?

Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden and co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, shares his perspective on European politics from Stockholm, Sweden.

First question, is Zelensky's finalized 'victory plan' realistic to bring peace
to Ukraine?

Well, the peace plan that he's talking about is a proposal that he's going to
present to President Biden at the meeting in UN in the next few days. They
are there for the UN General Assembly, and it consists essentially of beefing
up Ukraine's military capabilities with the possibility to use more long-range
weapons and other things in order to substantially increase the military
difficulties that Russia already having. Thus, possibly, hopefully, making it
certain, making it clear to the Kremlin that there's no way to victory and
that they have to sit down and agree to something that is acceptable and
that can be called peace of some sort. Will this work? Remains to be seen,
to put it in the mildest possible way.

Second question, why is there backlash against EU's anti-deforestation law?

Well, it's not unique for that particular one. I mean, all of the legislation for
the so-called Green Deal that was decided due to the last five years, a lot of
it is fairly complicated and has significant burdens on industry in order to
reporting requirements and all of those. That includes the deforestation law.
So there is a push to say, "Well, well it's all good. But let's delay it
somewhat so that business has the possibility of catching up with all of the
requirements." You will see that debate about several aspects of the Green
Deal. It doesn't endanger the deal itself, but it perhaps streamlines and
perhaps delays it somewhat.

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[jmhorange]

So Ukraine's victory plan is essentially more advanced weapons? Ukraine was at its strongest in 2022 when they took back large swathes of territory from the Russians. It's been downhill since then. And every escalation, from HIMARS, tanks, F-16s has been met with a Russian response and has not forced Russia to realize the war is lost and come to the negotiating table. In fact, Russia has gained territory and gained momentum with every escalation in weapons. So the new victory plan seems to be the same as before, no new strategy. About the only change I see is the Kursk invasion, which was a failure and accelerated Russian gains on the frontline.

Short of an actual plan for Ukraine to win the war, not trotting out the same strategy that's failed, under new weapons, Russia is going to win the war.