(Ukraine must win) - '..Conquering Ukraine has always been Putin’s plan. Now the United States is setting him up to try again.'

'With Donald Trump’s America showing zero commitment to democracy, the rule of law, human rights or free trade, is it time to admit things have changed?'

The United States is a joke of a country. How many ‘shared values’ does Australia actually have with it? July 23, 2025


'..Trump will be asking Europeans to take part in their own potential destruction, to tear down many of the principles, such as respect for the rule of law and internationally recognized borders, upon which post-1945 Europe was built.'

'In exchange for giving up land and its ability to defend itself, Ukraine would be offered toothless security guarantees by the United States—much like the never-enforced guarantees that it received when it gave up nuclear weapons after gaining independence in the 1990s. The points in the deal appear to be so lopsided in Putin’s favor that they might as well have been dictated by Moscow.

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..Conquering Ukraine has always been Putin’s plan. Now the United States is setting him up to try again.

..Trump will be asking Europeans to take part in their own potential destruction, to tear down many of the principles, such as respect for the rule of law and internationally recognized borders, upon which post-1945 Europe was built.

No matter what, though, Trump’s plan represents a clarifying moment. The deal almost certainly delivers what he has always wanted. He wants to work with Putin, even if that means devastating Ukraine, and now he no longer cares who knows it.'

- Professor Phillips Payson O’Brien, Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine, November 21, 2025



Context (Putin's War) - 'What are Ukraine's borders? .. they’re internationally recognized and defined in 1991.' - Navalny

'While Hugo Grotius is generally regarded as the principal forerunner of modern international law, historians of the discipline trace its primitive origins to the works of Francisco de Vitoria, a sixteenth-century Spanish theologian and jurist.'

- Cambridge, Francisco de Vitoria and the colonial origins of international law

(Ukraine nuclear weapons or NATO) - Illusion of security: Why Budapest Memorandum failed to protect Ukraine from war

Affective Human Action - Management & Organization in The Third Millennium