Sky News presenter Leah Boleto<\/a>.<\/p>\nHis verdict on the plan is that it’s “so amateur, apart from being politically outrageous, because it’s basically a surrender document”, Clarke said.<\/p>\n
Russia has given nothing and not changed its demands vis-a-vis the early days of the war, he noted.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has to give “more or less everything” in what appears like a “diminution of its sovereignty” and leaves it “completely insecure”, Clarke added.<\/p>\n
Regarding the future of the plan, Clarke said it looks like the Americans will “slap this on the table and say to Ukraine: sign it”.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Europeans will be trying to “put some professional diplomacy into it to tighten up some of this extremely vague language”, he estimated.<\/p>\n
Trump and Putin as ‘Mafioso bosses’<\/p>\n
Clarke sees a “big message” beyond Ukraine in the document:<\/p>\n
“Because if you just look at item four… it says that the United States will mediate between NATO and Russia to create a European security arrangement… The United States in this document is talking as if it’s not part of NATO, that when when the US, a founding member, talks about NATO, it means the Europeans.”<\/p>\n
Clarke said this is giving Russia what it wanted before the full-scale invasion: control over the sovereignty of some eastern European states while NATO is pulling back.<\/p>\n
What this means for Europe is that “we’re on the road to a major transatlantic rift, where the Americans say: you’re on your own, Europe”, he added.<\/p>\n
“This is Trump and Putin as a pair of big Mafioso bosses.<\/p>\n
“It may all fade away. But on paper this is the biggest crisis in transatlantic relations since 1949.”<\/p>\n
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