Did not work with Hitler - will not work with Putin: why the exchange of earth for peace gives nothing
It's hard to talk about it in public because it means we are going to reward aggression, "said France's former French Ambassador to Gerard Aro in an interview with Washington Post. During the aggressive war, it will promote further aggression against Ukraine or new aggression against other neighbors of Russia.
Exchange of Ukraine's refusal to nuclear weapons It happened against the backdrop of "Earth in exchange for peace" with various indigenous American tribes, only a few of which Washington adhered when his own interests changed. In an agreement with seventeen points with Tibet, the Chinese communist authorities promised to leave the political system in Tibet unchanged.
Instead of bringing peace, this agreement was a prelude to the annexation of Tibet by the Communist Party and the destruction of its cultural heritage. History offers many similar examples. The surrender of Germany of the Sudeten region did not prevent the Second World War - on the contrary, it may have accelerated it, since Adolf Hitler came to the conclusion that the West had no spine.
A striking example of the diplomacy "Earth in exchange for peace" was the Camp-Devisi Agreements, in which Israel exchanged the Sinai Peninsula for diplomatic recognition of Egypt. This Agreement in 1978 brought the Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and Egypt President Anwar of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Although the formula "Earth in exchange for peace" became the basis for further diplomacy, an example of Camp-Devid can be considered as an exception that confirms the rule for a simple reason: Sadat sought peace not because he received the land, but because after trying to conquer Israel In 1973, he himself realized that he would not be able to achieve his goals through war.
This factor slipped from the attention of American and European diplomats, who quickly made the formula "Earth in exchange for peace" basic for further Arab-Israeli diplomacy. Oslo Oslo Agreements, for example, gave the Palestinian administration control over most of the Gaza Sector and part of the western bank of the Jordan River. The Palestinian liberation organization turned them into shelters for terror.
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon intensified the problem when Israel forced Israel to completely remove the troops from Gaza. Next year, Hamas established control of this territory and immediately began to transform it into a terrorist base to continue attacks on a Jewish state. The same thing happened with Lebanon.
Israel wanted to exchange its buffer zone in the southern part of Lebanon for peace, but instead received more than 100,000 rockets on the border and tunnels "Hezbollai" beneath it. Simply put, every time Israel gave way to peace in exchange for peace, he received war and terror. And the fact is that, contrary to the simplified worldview of diplomats, the problem has never been a simple land dispute, but rather in the ideology and predatory of the enemy.
That is why the formula "land in exchange for peace" for Ukraine will not only lead to peace, but also eventually promises a new war. As Hamas seeks the destruction of Israel, and the late head of Hezbollah Hasan Nasrallah promised to eradicate the entire Jewish people, wherever he lived, so Putin denies any legitimacy of Ukraine's existence. His pre -war speeches and articles state that Ukrainians simply cannot exist separately from Russia.