【雙魚之論】
What I don’t understand is this: even if the United States is stepping in
to “mediate” (a much deeper level of involvement than mere “good offices”
shuttling) the War on Ukraine, why does the U.S. send a Presidential Special
Envoy to Russia (and Russia receives him at the same presidential-envoy level),
yet dispatch military officials to Ukraine? In theory, military officials (such
as U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and other generals who arrived in Kyiv on
November 19) have no authority to commit sovereignty-related issues—whether
their own country’s or another’s—yet the 28-point draft agreement is packed
with sovereignty-related clauses.
Judging from the 28 points, this U.S. special envoy has been given a mission
that is frankly humiliating and doomed to fail. From both the Russian and
Ukrainian perspectives, the proposal is fundamentally unacceptable to Ukraine.
Any Ukrainian president or high-rank officials who agree to it would be
guaranteed to be branded a traitor. Agreeing to amend the NATO Charter is
tantamount to unilateral disarmament against Russia. And how are the European
countries—who have been completely kept in the dark—supposed to react? This is
truly mission impossible.
The deal appears structured so that the United States benefits the most: using
frozen Russian assets as valued consideration for reconstruction and other
projects, with the U.S. taking half the profits as the “price” for its
mediation. Europe gets its share, meaning essentially all of Russia’s
foreign-exchange assets would end up fully controlled by the U.S. and Europe
and redirected to designated projects.
This brings us back to the core question: Is Trump actually serious? From
everything above, it does feel very “Trumpian”—bundling economics, finance,
military issues, the past and the future all together to force everyone into
rapid negotiations. Of course, the process is deeply flawed, and the relevant
countries have been left totally out of the loop.
Zelenskyy has already stated that Ukraine is going through “the most difficult
moment in its history.” By putting the hardship on the table first, and with
amnesty clauses covering senior officials on both the Ukrainian and Russian
sides, the likelihood of signatures being put on the document is actually quite
high.
我不解的是:即便是美國介入「調停」(比單純當中間人的「斡旋」介入程度更深)烏俄戰爭,為何美國派去俄羅斯的是總統特使(俄國也是由總統特使接待),美國對烏克蘭卻是派出軍方官員?軍方官員(陸軍部長Dan Driscoll等11/19抵達基輔)理論上無法承諾主權(無論本國或他國)相關議題,而28點協議草案卻牽涉太多主權議題。
從28點來看,這位美國特使有辱使命,因為就烏俄雙方觀點而言,對烏克蘭根本不可行。任何同意協議的烏克蘭總統與官員將確定叛國。而同意修改北約章程等於繳械,也被蒙在鼓裡的歐洲要如何接招?真的是難上加難。協議看來是美國得利,甚至於以被凍結的俄羅斯資產作價投資重建與其他,作為美國斡旋的代價,美國取得獲利之半。而歐洲也是,等於俄羅斯的外匯資產全數被美歐掌控並用於指定項目。
此時要回過頭來問:川普是當真的嗎?從上面看來,確實很川普風格:將經濟、財政、軍事,以及過去和未來全綁在一起逼所有人快速討論。當然,程序上有瑕疵,相關國家被蒙在鼓裡。
澤倫斯基已經發出烏克蘭正處於「歷史上最艱難的時刻」,困難講在先,赦免也包括烏俄雙方高官,所以,簽字的可能性很大。
〈美國對烏克蘭安全保證草案提案〉
〈28點烏克蘭和平計畫〉
領土、北約、資產、赦免……全文閱讀美俄提出的28點烏克蘭和平計畫 Bloomberg
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【彭博】—以下為美國官員為結束俄羅斯對烏克蘭的戰爭而草擬的28點和平計畫。
據知情人士透露,該方案由美國總統川普的特使史蒂夫·威特科夫與俄羅斯總統普丁代表基裡爾·德米特裡耶夫商定。美國軍方官員周四在基輔向烏克蘭總統沃洛迪米爾·澤連斯基做了詳細介紹,後者表示打算盡快與川普討論其中一些關鍵問題。