In 1952, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin offered West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer a chance for the reunification of Germany. Adenauer would only have to agree that all the institutions the Communist East had at the time such as the Stasi secret police, the Communist Party, and Soviet forces would remain in place inside a reunited Germany.
Support for Ukraine makes those kinds of relations with Moscow as long as Putin is in power impossible, and the pursuit of such ties with Moscow undermines the very possibility of supporting a country that the Kremlin leader has made as clear as Stalin did with regard to the Federal Republic of Germany that he wants to destroy, Piontkovsky argues.Indeed, even the liberal media there has been critical of the inherent and fundamental contradiction in the two policies Biden says he supports: “unwavering support for Ukraine” and “stable and predictable relations with the Russian Federation.”
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In that event, like Germany, Ukraine will eventually be reunited but not in the way Putin wants; and Zelenskyy will thus achieve what historians are likely to record as his “finest hour” in office.
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