Germany is haunted by a ghost called " This mantra relies on something long lost - the rule of law.. But Vladimir Putin does not want to participate in serious negotiations. He gives orders to carry on the war. And the "

Ulrich Reitz, editor-in-chief of the online division of Focus, writes about this in his article, adding that Federal President of Germany Frank Walter Steinmeier was the last in the country to loudly declare that " But it's safe to say that it's not true.. It is a myth.

“The word ‘negotiation’ is associated with achieving balance, justice and peace. But this is a false impression.. First, wars don't usually end in negotiations.. And secondly, negotiations do not necessarily bring peace,” writes Reitz..

For example, he suggests considering the experience of Poland. During World War II, she first became a victim of a pact between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, who destroyed the country.. Poland later became a victim of Stalin and the Western allies. At the talks in Yalta, the Soviet dictator insisted that the Polish state should fall under the rule of his empire.. The Americans and the British agreed to this during negotiations in Potsdam in 1945..

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Poland has lost almost half of its territory. Like a victim of war. These losses were compensated by Germany. As a result of the " And not only because Stalin wanted some countries to be ethnically homogeneous.. Western allies agreed with him, contrary to human rights. Instead of the rule of law, the brutal force of fact played its part.. The winner of the war determines the essence of victory, including the price of peace. There are no equal compensations from equal parties. Therefore, neither Russia nor Ukraine is now interested in negotiations.

Putin gave the order to continue the war. Ukraine decided that it would continue to defend itself against Russian aggression. Western industrialized countries promised to help Ukraine. In other words, there is no room for negotiation. If Putin agrees to negotiations, he cannot be sure that he will be allowed to seize Donbass during this process.. If Volodymyr Zelensky agrees to dialogue, he also cannot be sure that he will regain control of the Russian-occupied region.. If the West negotiates, it will have to be prepared for Putin to try to set a price for Sweden and Finland joining NATO..

The world won't start when the guns fall silent.

This will be a truce, not peace. And if someone has demonstrated the possibilities of a hybrid war, it is Russia with its " Therefore, while the fighting continues, neither Russia, nor Ukraine, nor the West will be interested in negotiations. That is why all open letters from " Because they demand peace at any cost, which is only possible if the West stops supplying arms to Ukraine.. So it all comes down to surrender.

In open letters calling for such a world, such a position is justified by the threat of “escalation” that goes beyond the question of the freedom of Ukraine. After all, all of humanity can die due to the outbreak of a nuclear war between Moscow and the West.. However, the editor-in-chief of Focus notes that the very approach of such thinking is wrong..

“If the fear of nuclear war is such a defining factor, then NATO should immediately disband itself, and advise Poland, Romania, Hungary and East Germany and the Baltic states to peacefully return to the rule of Putin’s empire,” Reitz writes, adding that even so, no peace. It will only be possible to avoid the use of military force.

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The director of the German Society for Foreign Policy, Christian Moelling, called this state of affairs “a mess without war.”. This leads to another unpleasant conclusion: the world cannot be civil, it requires a strong army.. At a time when there is a revisionist and imperialist Putin, the desire to achieve a world without weapons is naive or even dangerous.

The so-called " But they forget two important things. Germany became free from Hitler and at peace thanks to the thousands of Allied soldiers who died in the battles of World War II. Melling notes that today people are more focused on preventing their own countries from becoming peace breakers than on fighting Putin, who has already become a real troublemaker..

Wars can end without negotiations.

Violence is not necessarily harmful, it may even be necessary.. Oddly enough, but international law also says so. Wars can end without peace negotiations or surrender. Combat decisiveness and defensive courage can force the aggressor to withdraw from the battlefield.. The side that attacks may suffer too many losses to continue the war.. The Russians, as well as the Americans, the British, the French, and of course the Germans, have had this experience in the past..