Steigan.no (a Norwegian source): The US and Russia want to end the war in Ukraine. Is this the beginning of “Yalta II?

Yalta peace table where the structure of the post WW2 world was negotiated in February, 1945. Do we need a “Yalta II” today? I think so.

The US and Russia want to end the war in Ukraine

(translated from Norwegian with Google Translate)

What are Norway and the parliamentary parties doing now?

Trump and Putin had their first phone call on February 12, 2025. They want to end the war in Ukraine as quickly as possible.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and US Secretary of State J.D. Vance have later elaborated and clarified the US position:

1. Ukraine should not become a member of NATO.
2. The US will not send troops to Ukraine, neither peacekeepers nor combatants.
3. The US will not deliver or pay for weapons to prolong the war in Ukraine.
4. Ukraine will not be able to regain the borders from before 2014. These are not realistic demands on Russia.
5. NATO countries must increase their defense budgets to 5%, and take over the further warfare against Russia, if that is what they want

This came as a formidable shock to a large majority of Western leaders.

The panic is visible on their faces from all the emergency meetings in NATO, the EU and in the respective governments. Now they are asking that European leaders be allowed to participate in the negotiations. In various meetings with representatives from the Baltic countries and Ukraine, Støre and Barth Eide have assured that Norway will support and help Ukraine to a better negotiating position and demanded that both Europe and Ukraine be allowed to sit at the negotiating table because this concerns European security.

Shocked vassals

The US is now treating the leaders of the EU and NATO as what they have been and are, submissive vassals.

The US special envoy to Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg, has answered a question at a meeting in Munich whether he can assure that Ukraine will sit at the table in the upcoming peace negotiations, and that European leaders will also be allowed to sit at the same table. Kellogg answered as follows: “The answer to your last question is no. The answer to your first question is yes. Of course, Ukraine will be at the table.”

He then lectured the European leaders on “what this war really looks like” after 3 years of war. It is a reality orientation that is hard to swallow, for those who have built themselves a castle in the air based on misleading information over many years. Kellogg, like Defense Secretary Hegseth and Vice President Vance, says that the most important thing is to stop the war, and not prolong it until the last Ukrainian soldier falls. A lasting peace must be created. The United States is now disclaiming responsibility for the proxy war they have planned and financed up to now. Not unexpectedly, they are now kicking the ball over to their infidel vassals.

We also note that at the same meeting in Munich, the European leaders were reprimanded by Vance for censorship and rejecting democratic elections. He referred, among other things, to the elections in Romania. (Ref. Reuters 14 February 2025 “In Munich, Vance accuses European politicians of censoring free speech”). We can add that they have also boasted about manipulation, and said that they will do it again, if necessary. (Ref. EU Commissioner T Breton. CNews 9 Jan 2025).

The Western media image is cracking

After stopping the peace talks in Istanbul 3 years ago (Boris Johnsen et al. April 2022), the US, NATO and the EU have repeated and refined the narrative that Russia would be defeated militarily and economically, once and for all. Jens Stoltenberg tops the vulgar version with “weapons are the way to peace”. Those who want a more entertaining version of this cacophony should listen to Jimmy Door (“Ukraine will win” Jan 29, 2025). Professor Glenn Diesen, who now emerges as one of our foremost intellectuals on geopolitics, writes on his blog that the Europeans have over time adopted such uncompromising demands and been so dismissive of a diplomatic solution that they would undermine any peace talks between the US and Russia. In addition, they have subordinated themselves in such a way that they have become increasingly irrelevant. Therefore, neither the US nor Russia want them at the table during peace talks.

We can add: Washington has long cultivated European politicians who have been willing to prioritize American interests over the interests of their own nations and citizens. Now they are being kicked under the bus by their masters.

Panic among NATO and European leaders

There is now complete panic in NATO, and among all those who have been eager for arms shipments and an extension of the war in Ukraine.

Norway is no exception, and we can refer to statements by Barth Eide to Dagsrevyen NRK. Eide demands that Ukraine must sit at the negotiating table with its European allies and lay the foundations for a peace solution. He and several others now want a European security policy, a security policy that was not relevant to discuss before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It will be exciting to see what Macron, Scholz, Starmer and Fredriksen will present when they have concluded all the emergency meetings that are now being called.

NATO’s Secretary General, Mark Rutte, has said in repeated interviews that he is in favor of peace provided that Ukraine gains a better negotiating position. It can hardly be interpreted in any other way than that Ukraine should receive increased military support, so that the war can continue. The Norwegian Foreign Minister, for his part, is asking that Ukraine be allowed to join NATO.

A neutral Ukraine, outside of NATO, was the most important demand from Russia during the peace negotiations in Istanbul 2022. This demand has later been repeated countless times by Russia, and presented as their red line. The new American leadership has finally understood this, but not their servants in Europe who have been brainwashed into believing that Russia will lose militarily and economically, yes be crushed. They look just as questioning when Kellogg tells them “what this war looks like”. Ukraine has lost militarily and is losing dramatically with each passing day.

An even more important realization is that it is the USA, Europe and NATO that have lost the proxy war. The big surprise now is that when the engine of this war pulls out (=USA) and wants to end the war, the European leaders come back with the demand for a better negotiating position for Ukraine, and again ask that Ukraine be allowed to become a NATO member. Everyone should know that NATO members in Europe have neither the military nor the economic strength to wage war against Russia on their own.

The new American leadership has somewhat indulgently let the warmongers in Europe understand that they must continue to fight against Russia, but without the help of the United States.

End the war. Create lasting peace!

Back to the negotiations in Istanbul 2022.

The big difference, barely 3 years later, is that Russia has won the war on the battlefield.

Eastern Ukraine with the provinces of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson has already been incorporated into the Russian Federation. During the negotiations in the spring of 2022, Russia demanded that the above-mentioned areas should be autonomous, but still part of the Ukrainian state. At the same time, Ukraine should be neutral, outside of NATO. Russia, for its part, was to withdraw to its pre-2014 borders, except for Crimea.

This was flatly rejected by the West, which incited war.

Now the weapons have spoken – as the West wanted and demanded. Ukraine has paid an unimaginable price. Many 100,000 have been killed, or maimed for life and 10 million are homeless. But that is clearly not enough. Now the negotiating position of Ukraine is to be strengthened. In reality, they are asking that Ukraine also sacrifice its youth of 18-25 years, while Ukraine as a state faces total destruction.

What are the Norwegian government and parliamentary parties doing now, including the Norwegian left-wing parties, such as SV and Rødt?

Tromsø February 19, 2025

The Anti-War Initiative in Tromsø by

Torgeir Engstad, Toril Konst and Kolbjørn Schanche

Antikrigsinitiativet i Tromsø ved

Torgeir Engstad, Toril Konst og Kolbjørn Schanche