DECEMBER 14, 2025 2:46 PM CET
BY
JONES HAYDENUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. envoys were in Berlin on Sunday for another round of peace talks, with Kyiv emphasizing that strong security guarantees are an essential component of any prospective deal to end the war.
Zelenskyy said there will be “meetings in Berlin today and tomorrow” to discuss the proposals on the table to find an end to the conflict in Ukraine. Zelenskyy said he will meet personally with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in Berlin.
“The key thing is that all the steps we agree on with partners must work in practice
to deliver guaranteed security,” Zelenskyy said in a
tweet Sunday afternoon from Berlin. “Only reliable guarantees can deliver peace. We count on our partners to continue working constructively as well.”
How DO you deliver “guaranteed security?
This war has been going on for nearly 4 years. Any other country that actually was willing to fight for Ukraine - as opposed to merely providing them with weapons and intel - has had am
e opportunity to do so. And there have been a few foreign volunteers (and NK troops volunteered), but for the last four years any actual state that wanted to send troops to fight for Ukraine has certainly had the opportunity. But none did.
How would a cease fire - or a treaty - change that? Nobody outside of Ukraine (excepting NK) has been willing to toss their troops into a battle. Would a treaty even change that? Would even NATO membership for Ukraine change that? Don’t tell me about Article 5. Article 5 is so weasel worded it doesn’t commit you to do anything specifically:
https://cepa.org/article/willfully-v...SAEEgLEQPD_BwE
it damn sure doesn’t commit you to get in an all out war with a nuclear adversary. H€LL, right now we are gearing up to take on narco terrorists whose products have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Do we see the rest of NATO sending invasion forces down towards Venezuela? Of course not. Despite the fact the narco-terrorism’s have become a major problem for Europe too.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/h...Lckawbxg%3D%3D
And Venezuela $doesn't have 5000 nukes even.