Andrew Barr

The deal was predicated on Energy Security guarantees. This is why more nuclear power stations pushed for Scotland to supply England England to get jobs and billions Scotland to get radiation leaks and cancers despite being the right choice for the AI investment

🚨 “Vance doesn’t participate in negotiations; if he did, he would have a better understanding of what this so-called ‘just a patch of land’ really means,” Zelenskyy responded to JD Vance. CONTEXT: U.S. Vice President JD Vance claims Russia and Ukraine are prolonging the conflict over a negligible portion of territory, questioning if it is “worth losing hundreds of thousands of additional Russian and Ukrainian young men”, and criticised Ukrainian President Zelensky's "scandalous" comments about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. RESPONSE: The Vice President (Vance), with all due respect, doesn't participate in negotiations between the United States, Ukraine, and Russia. And I think if he and other officials were involved, they’d have a better understanding of what this so-called ‘just a patch of land’ really means - what is actually Ukraine’s sovereign territory, critically important for security, with strong defensive structures and fortifications, and home to nearly 200,000 people. And understanding that Russia's goal from the start of the occupation, the first occupations, this goal has always been there (to get that land) in one form or another, in one order or another, right? And so we understand what the occupation of the East actually means. It's an opportunity to prepare a staging ground, you could say, for future offensive actions. So before doing anything, you need to know the details and have detailed security guarantees. Yes, we're talking about strong security guarantees, but right now we simply don't have them. Ukraine just doesn't have the security guarantees to discuss other steps. And of course, every square meter of our land is Ukrainian land. It is not— with all due respect to any of our partners—definitely not theirs.