The US has put forward a 28-point Russia-Ukraine peace proposal, causing an uproar in various circles. Switzerland's public broadcaster SRF criticizes that the general situation is unfavorable for Ukraine, leaving it barely even capable of rejecting the plan.
The commentary bluntly points out that the 'Ukraine Peace Plan' being devised by US President Trump's team is, in essence, not a peace plan at all, but rather a 'forced surrender proposal' demanding Ukraine's unilateral capitulation. The article states frankly that the real goal of the plan is not to end the war, but to allow Russia to lock in all currently occupied territories at the lowest cost, and to ensure that Ukraine will never again pose a threat to Russia.
According to reliable sources within European diplomatic circles, the outlines of the proposal put forth by Trump's core advisors include: Ukraine must recognize Crimea and the four regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia as 'forever belonging to Russia'; the complete demilitarization of all Ukrainian territory; a permanent renunciation of any NATO membership; a drastic reduction in the army’s size to fewer than 100,000 troops; and all postwar reconstruction costs to be fully borne by the EU, with the US not paying a cent.
Even harsher is that the plan contains no requirement for Russia to withdraw its troops; on the contrary, it provides Russian President Putin with a 'security guarantee': as soon as Zelensky signs, the US will immediately lift all sanctions against Russia, restore Nord Stream gas transport, and promise never to let Ukraine join NATO. In other words, Russia does not have to return a single inch of land or pay a penny in reparations, instead obtaining all its war aims, all under the packaging of 'Trump's grand peace deal'.
● “Munich Agreement 2.0 of the 21st Century”
The author harshly criticizes this as essentially the 'Munich Agreement 2.0 of the 21st century': In 1938, Britain and France forced Czechoslovakia to cede the Sudetenland to Hitler in exchange for 'peace'; in 2025, the US would force Ukraine to give up 30% of its territory to Putin, proclaiming itself to have 'ended war in Europe'. Such 'appeasement at the neighbor’s expense' has always ended in greater wars, as history shows.
The article cites Henry Kissinger's final warning from his last interview before his death in 2023: 'If the West forces Ukraine to exchange territory for peace, it is telling the world: as long as you launch a war of aggression and hold out until negotiations, you can permanently annex land. This will destroy the entire post-WWII international order.'
The author believes Trump's plan is precisely to force this most dangerous precedent onto the 21st century.
● For Ukraine, Signing Means National Suicide
For Ukraine, this 'peace plan' is more terrifying than continued fighting, because signing it is national suicide: losing the Black Sea outlet, losing the industrial heartland, and losing 30 million people’s worth of territory, the remaining 'mutilated Ukraine' would become a permanent vassal of Russia. If it refuses to sign, it would be completely abandoned by the US, while Europe is incapable of supporting it alone.
The author concludes: This is not 'a dignified peace for Ukraine', but 'a bullying script letting Putin take all, the US retreat unscathed, and Europe foot the bill'. If Trump truly does this, it would be, in the 80 years since the end of WWII, the free world's most shameful collective surrender to an aggressor—whose consequences would be ten times worse than the Russia-Ukraine war itself: the next target of 'forced peace' might well be Taiwan or the Baltic states. (News source: United Daily News)