Late in the summer of 1939, the Soviet and German Foreign Ministers Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop signed the infamous nonaggression pact that divided Eastern Europe between their nations and enabled Hitler’s invasion of Poland just days later.
Europe’s shock at a much more recent, U.S.-Russian plan for Ukraine stems — for all the obvious differences between the two documents — from one critical similarity: Two major military powers are once again colluding to carve up the continent for their mutual benefit.
This should have been clear long ago. I’ve been saying since at least February that the Trump administration wasn’t interested so much in negotiating a peace deal for Ukraine as in resetting U.S.-Russia relations at the expense of Kyiv and its European backers. Publication of the 28-point U.S.-Russian proposal has just made that impossible to ignore.
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