On Sunday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a diplomatic push toward peace in Ukraine and said he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed that Russia should attend a future peace summit.
“I believe that now is the time to discuss how to arrive at peace from this state of war, indeed at a faster pace,” Scholz said. “There will certainly be a further peace conference, and the president and I agree that it must be one with Russia present.”
Scholz’s comments mark a rare call for peace in Ukraine from a leader of a NATO country. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been consistently calling for an end to the fighting, but he’s been out of step with other NATO and European leaders.
Back in June, Ukraine organized a conference in Switzerland that was billed as a “peace summit,” but Russia was not invited to attend, so it didn’t make any progress toward a ceasefire.
After the Switzerland conference, Zelensky began saying that Russia should attend the next summit, which marked a break from his previous position that he wouldn’t hold any talks with Moscow until a complete Russian withdrawal from Ukraine, which was a non-starter.
Russia expressed interest in holding peace talks, but then Ukraine launched its invasion of Kursk on August 6. Following the attack, Russian officials dismissed the idea of peace talks and suggested Zelensky’s earlier comments about inviting Russia to a summit were a bluff.
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled that he was softening his position, saying Moscow “never refused” to negotiate. But there’s still no sign that a peace summit involving Russian and Ukrainian officials is being planned, and the US isn’t expected to support any efforts toward peace, at least before the November election.
Throughout the war, the only time a real peace deal was on the table was back in March and April of 2022. But the US and NATO discouraged Ukraine from signing an agreement and promised to support its fight against Russia.
Peace will never be on the table of America's War Economy. Every vote cast for the ruling duopoly is a vote cast for never-ending War.
They will move on to the next conquest of destruction. The ME, China, etc.
Just like we defeated that juggernaut, Grenada. Such a grand victory! At last we kicked the Vietnam syndrome! Hooray!
Hey, you get to vote for WHICH war priority you prefer……. None of the above isn't on the list though.
My war priority is Diplomacy, what Colin Powell called Peace². if I didn’t make it obvious,I’m voting Jill Stein.
Soon Ukraine will only be able to field an Olympic team of paraplegics.
I dunno… one of their neo-Nazi veterans did well at the Invictus Games and was even awarded a medal by Jon Stewart !
I guess it's not strange how Olaf omits to include The Principal antagonist, … and ohhhhhh how Washington needs to eat some crow.
If the US accedes to a peace deal in Ukraine….it can only mean the US has decided that Ukraine war has lost its luster, is proving more difficult than the original fantasy narrative. US now plans for a new, shinier war with a new (darker skinned ) villain. That means Iran.
Oye vey!
And they will use arms supply to Russia as one of the factors to start that war with their ME proxy/junk yard dog, Israel.
They need Russian gas to revive the German economy.
"Germany’s Scholz Calls for Push Toward Peace in Ukraine" Somebody FU@KING interrupted him from finishing his sentence with, "By giving more weapons to Ukraine!"
Germany's Scholz calls for a night with Russian Human Rights Commissioner Maria-Lvova, says that "despite her flaws, shes white and Russian, and I like em that way
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"Scholz’s comments mark a rare call for peace in Ukraine from a leader of a NATO country." …LOL. That's funny. …No, not that part that's funny. It's the Scholz being a leader of a country part.
I wish Spock from Star Trek was still around to mind meld with Scholz. I'd like him to confirm that "Germany" is no where to be found in Scholz's head.
Well, sanctions on Russia did not work to make it weak… but Germany is de-industrializing unless they would resume importing the cheap oil and gas from Russia…!
Winter is not far away.
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remember last winter
(nothing happened)
Biden's little German puppet says what? Pushing any peace conference authored by Zelensky is an automatic loser, big time.
Scholz Is feeling the sting from AFD gaining. Lip service.
Agreed 👍 💯
Uh, oh. Speaking out of turn? His bosses won't like that….
German PM Scholz calls for BJ from Putin, says that "If ther's peace then maybe there's a realistic chance of it happening"
And then came the day when "Chancellor of Peace" Olaf Scholz decided to make Victor Orban a visionary. Is it true what Lord Acton said that "a wise man does at once what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing, only at different times?"
Sadly this foolishness cost untold numbers of lives, ruined lives, ruined a nation and ruined Europe's future. This isn't just the hapless blundering of spineless dull-witted dunces who just happened to achieve the opposite of whatever fantasy the might have had through sheer incompetence, stupidity and ignorance, this instead is as close to the epitome or rather apex of criminal insanity as it can get. Sadly that crown is taken forever and ever by the Israeli.
Well said.
hungary banned protests in support of gaza to spare public order.
The public order was not in jeopardy. Of course it wasn't. Usually the only threat to the public order comes from police violence. Hungary in sofar it is possible is even worse than Germany on that anachronistic Zionist tumor in the Middle East. No argument there.