24 May, 13:36
After a two-hour phone call with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump declared that only Russia and Ukraine should negotiate peace, because, as he claimed, “they know the details that no one else is aware of.”
This wasn’t neutrality. It was a red flag. Because what Trump presents as a path to peace is in fact a quiet normalization of aggression.
Peace does not mean erasing facts
Putin’s favorite tactic is to bury crimes under myth — invoking “historical rights,” “spiritual unity,” and “ancient borders.” Trump echoes this mythology under the guise of strategic depth. But there is no such thing as “shared responsibility” for a war of conquest.
Russia invaded Ukraine.
Russia occupied five regions.
Russia continues its war.
Russia ignores the UN Charter and the foundations of the global order.
Everything else is noise — noise meant to distract from a clear act of aggression.
Behind Trump’s “peacemaker” posture lies dangerous ignorance
Trump doesn’t recall when ceasefire talks started. His envoy can’t name the occupied regions. The U.S. ambassador to Kyiv resigned after years of being sidelined. This isn’t statesmanship — it’s chaos wrapped in a handshake.
And it’s being sold as diplomacy.
What’s the real problem?
When you don’t call an invasion an invasion,
When you refuse to pressure the aggressor,
When you reduce occupied territories to “points of negotiation” —
You are not a mediator. You are a participant.
Trump legitimizes the Russian narrative by default. He accepts Putin’s framing. He shifts the focus away from law and toward myth. This is not balance — it is complicity.
Trump isn’t a neutral actor — he’s a channel for Russian revisionism
His approach — “Let’s just talk, both sides have a point” — is not conflict resolution. It’s a rebranding of capitulation.
If the President of the United States cannot distinguish between aggression and diplomacy,
If he refuses to name the violator of international law,
If he sees peace as a transaction rather than a principle —
Then he is not preserving the world order.
He is helping dismantle it.
Sovereignty is not negotiable
Peace cannot be built on amnesia.
Justice is not optional.
The war in Ukraine is not about “history.” It’s about power — and who gets to rewrite the rules.
When diplomacy becomes performance, and “neutrality” becomes surrender, the world must say clearly:
- Peace without accountability is fiction.
- Impartiality in the face of invasion is betrayal.
- And Donald Trump, by pretending otherwise, is not ending the war — he is legitimizing it.
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