One of Donald Trump’s special advisors has said in a brutal warning to Kyiv that “Crimea is gone” and European allies and President Joe Biden failed to “provide Ukraine with the arms it needed to win early on.”
“The reality on the ground is [that] the European nation states and President Biden did not give Ukraine the ability and the arms to win this war at the very beginning and failed to lift the restrictions for Ukraine to win,” Bryan Lanza, a strategist for the Republican Party insisted.
It seems that Ukraine has possibly lost the war and will have to allow grave concessions that tens of thousands of troops have been fighting for since February 2022.
Crimea was taken by Vladimir Putin and annexed in 2014 which then turned the Black Sea into more of a strategic region for Moscow.
With Kyiv being told that three-word warning indicates what Trump and his team’s priorities are for Ukraine to end the war.
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Lanza said Trump will present to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky what they see as a “realistic” vision for peace to end the war.
Lanza quite clearly stated, “If President Zelensky comes to the table and says we can only have peace if we recover Crimea, he’s showing us that he’s not serious.”
He said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces do have the “hearts of lions,” he told the BBC World Service’s Weekend, “What we’ll be asking Ukraine is: what do you envision as a realistic path to peace?
“This is not about winning but about finding peace. It’s time to have an honest conversation.
“When Zelensky says there will only be peace once Crimea is returned, we have news for him: Crimea is gone.
“If your priority is to get Crimea back with American soldiers fighting for it, you’re on your own.”