SBU Major General: This Is A Dangerous Precedent
16- 8.08.2025, 16:58
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Why Trump shouldn't meet with Putin.
The White House has confirmed: US President Donald Trump wants to meet simultaneously with Putin and the head of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. The American president's entourage is already discussing the organization of a trilateral summit.
What should Ukraine expect from such negotiations? The Charter97.org talked to retired SBU Major General Viktor Yagun about it.
- I don't think it will happen in the format of a trilateral meeting. There may be a separate meeting between Trump and Putin, separately with Zelensky. That's still a possibility. But the fact that Putin will meet with Zelensky, I do not believe yet. There are no prerequisites. First of all - on the part of Russia. At this stage, apart from a ceasefire for a certain period of time, we should hardly expect anything more.
- Can the very fact of Putin's participation in such talks be seen as legitimizing Russian aggression? How dangerous can such a precedent be for international law?
- It is indeed a dangerous precedent. If a person is recognized as a criminal, but at the same time he is accepted in the international arena, he meets with someone, participates in summits - this is always very bad.
It is clear that no one is waiting for Putin in Europe, and no one is waiting for him in civilized countries either. But even his appearance somewhere in the Arab world, in Africa or Latin America is already legalization of a monster that allows itself such behavior in international politics.
Any publicity of Putin, any of his trips to the international arena, any meeting, especially at such a high level as with the president of the United States, is actually legalization of his crimes. This sends a signal to future aggressors: anything is possible in this world.
- How will the possible meeting affect the position of the Western coalition in supporting Ukraine? There are countries that adhere to the position: "Better a bad peace than a good war". Yes, there are such states, and they promote the idea of agreements: let some part of Ukraine go, let us share something somewhere, the main thing is to stop the war and not to spend money on defense.
This is a very dangerous mistake in assessing the situation. All this has already happened in the XX century, in 1937-38, when they tried to appease Hitler with handouts. Now some countries are acting in the same way.
But the majority of world leaders know history and realize that such concessions do not lead to anything. Therefore, there is hope that the coalition will be preserved and will move in the right direction.
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