It didn't take long for the Ukrainian government to blast and dismiss former US Secretary of State Kissinger's peace plan proposal as "appeasing the aggressor".
"Mr. Kissinger still has not understood anything… neither the nature of this war, nor its impact on the world order," Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak said in response to the 99-year old influential US statesman's Saturday op-ed in The Spectator entitled How to Avoid Another World War.
"The prescription that the ex-Secretary of State calls for, but is afraid to say out loud, is simple: appease the aggressor by sacrificing parts of Ukraine with guarantees of non-aggression against the other states of Eastern Europe," Podolyak stated, expressing a firm rejection of what Kissinger outlined in his piece.
The Ukrainian official added that the proposal was simplistic, saying: "All supporters of simple solutions should remember the obvious: any agreement with the devil - a bad peace at the expense of Ukrainian territories - will be a victory for Putin and a recipe for success for autocrats around the world."
In his weekend op-ed, Kissinger had warned that continued attempts to render Russia "impotent" could result in an uncontrollable and unpredictable spiral. He laid out that along with the sought after "dissolution" of Russia would come a massive power vacuum out of which new threats to the whole world would emerge as bigger powers rush in.
