Never Negotiate with Russia

Anyone willing to negotiate any settlement with Russia deeply misunderstands the nature of the Russian state.

Russia has a 700-year history of breaking most of its agreements. Under Vladimir Putin alone, it has violated every single peace agreement it entered — 25 in total — as well as most international conventions.

Here is a list of some of the conventions and agreements Russia has broken:

• United Nations Charter (1945)
• Geneva Conventions (1949)
• Helsinki Final Act (1975)
• INF Treaty (1987)
• Budapest Memorandum (1994)
• Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership with Ukraine (1997)
• Chemical Weapons Convention (1997)
• Minsk Agreements (2014 & 2015)
• Various cybersecurity treaties and norms (2000s–present)

There is a clear pattern to Russian negotiations, best summed up by former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko:

1. Demand the maximum — not ask, but demand.
2. Present the most aggressive ultimatums, including military and nuclear threats.
3. Never concede an inch, because there will always be someone in the West willing to offer something — often more than what was originally demanded.

If we allow Russia to gain anything from its war against Ukraine, we send a message that aggression works — and that others should follow the same path.

In the end, Russia can only be defeated on the battlefield. It’s that simple.

The idea that “all wars must end at the negotiation table” is dangerously naive. Hitler, Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito never negotiated anything — until they lost everything through total military defeat.

Therefore, all U.S.-pushed “peace negotiations” will lead nowhere. Russia is simply trying to obtain through diplomacy what it failed to win on the battlefield. Meanwhile, Trump is foolishly playing into Putin’s hands, and Ukraine is being threatened by the U.S. to comply — amounting to extortion and the betrayal of an entire nation. This also violates the Budapest Memorandum, where the U.S. asked Ukraine to give up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for security guarantees.

Shockingly, the U.S. has even voted against Ukraine at the UN — twice — joining Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea against the free world. This is historically unprecedented.

Let’s make this loud and clear: the United States is now actively aligning itself with authoritarian powers like Russia and China. And because its leaders were democratically elected, this alignment is not accidental — it is a deliberate betrayal of the values of freedom and democracy.