Target: Steve Witkoff, U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions
Goal: Work for a Ukrainian peace deal that does not make major concessions to Russia.
A report about a proposed Russia and Ukraine peace deal authored by the United States sent shockwaves for all the wrong reasons. Initial reports stated that U.S. officials had given Ukraine’s leadership an ultimatum: agree to a deal by Thanksgiving or lose critical U.S. support. Allies, and Ukrainian representatives themselves, were apparently left out entirely of the plan’s drafting.
The main problem: the plan heavily favored Russian interests. It would have mandated Ukraine to shrink the size of its military and prohibited the country from ever joining the NATO alliance. Perhaps most consequentially, the proposal reportedly would have forced Ukraine to give up large swaths of its territory to Russia, including areas the Russian military had not yet even occupied. Russia (headed by an indicted war criminal) would have enjoyed the restoration of full economic ties with the United States as well.
Key U.S. officials had also allegedly coached top Russian representatives on how to get the American president fully in their corner. When word broke of the proposal and the condemnation began, U.S. officials walked back the deadline and finally sought Ukraine’s input. Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded by unequivocally stating that any “peace” deal must include a concession of territory by Ukraine, and he threatened further military onslaught in the absence of such a concession.
More meetings have been scheduled with Russia. Sign the petition below to remind U.S. leaders of where their allegiances and alliances should rest.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Special Envoy Witkoff,
The 28-point peace plan reportedly handed as a ‘take-it-or-leave-it’ demand to Ukraine was – to put it in the words of key allies – “total capitulation.” Do you need a history lesson of what happened when a similar capitulation was made to Nazi Germany pre-World War II? All of the agreements and the promises to stop hostilities promptly fell by the wayside.
Russia has already violated every pledge it ever made to leave Ukraine in peace – including the U.S.-backed agreement that cost Ukraine its nuclear arsenal. Learn from history, and do not repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the past. Take a hardline stance with Russia, the true aggressor, and not with America’s ally. The choices made now could once again alter the course of world history. Ensure it’s not a collision course with disaster.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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