Speaking in Munich, Volodymyr Zelenskyy also called for a clear date for his country to be allowed to join the EU
Ukraine wants security guarantees for a minimum of 20 years from the US before it can sign a peace deal with dignity, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said ahead of talks with Russia and the US scheduled for next week.
Speaking in Munich on Saturday, he also called for a clear date for Ukraine to be allowed to join the EU. Some EU officials have put the date as early as 2027.
Speaking to the annual Munich security summit, Ukraine’s president said he hoped “the trilateral meetings next week will be serious, substantive, helpful for all of us but, honestly, sometimes it feels like the sides are talking about completely different things”.
“The Americans often return to the topic of concessions and too often those concessions are discussed only in the context of Ukraine, not Russia,” he added.
No guarantees were given, just non binding security assurances, not that the US government actually gives a fuck about laws or treaties
If we have to get into the weeds of the differences between “guarantees” and “assurances,” the country in question (the US) is not a trustworthy ally.
The US is not trustworthy.
When you are talking about legal documents(like a treaty), the language matters immensely. It’s literally the reason lawyers exist.
The difference between a guaranty and and assurance should have let the Ukrainian government know the US government was never planning on helping fight Russia.