“This is the victim directly blaming itself, and it is also a massive reputational self-harm by the United States, the second pillar of Western civilization – and this reputational damage has already occurred,” international relations specialist Giorgi Koberidze said on PalitraNews program “Resume” while discussing the 28-point peace plan put forward by U.S. President Donald Trump.

According to Koberidze, under this agreement the aggressor country would, on the one hand, be rewarded and, on the other hand, all its crimes would be granted amnesty.

“This is a document of an agreement that Ukraine will never sign – it is impossible – because it essentially punishes the victim, Ukraine, instead of the aggressor. If such an agreement was really drafted by the American authorities, it is, at the very least, an encouragement for aggressive regimes – not only Russia but also the United States’ main adversary, China.

The aggressor is not only rewarded and not only keeps the territories it has seized under this agreement, but every crime it has committed falls under amnesty. Accordingly, it will bear no responsibility for those crimes. Moreover, the existing international legal order that was created after World War II and prohibited wars of aggressive conquest simply disappears. And not only does it disappear, but NATO itself – the main child of the Cold War – undertakes the obligation never to expand again.

In the end, this is the victim directly blaming itself, and it is an enormous reputational self-harm by the United States, the second pillar of Western civilization – and that reputational damage has already happened.

No matter what happens next, Russia has already achieved its goal. Russia’s goal was never only to bring Ukraine to its knees. One of its main goals has always been the complete collapse of the existing international legal order, in which wars of conquest would become commonplace again,” Koberidze noted.

He also commented on European leaders’ statements regarding the peace plan and, answering the question “why Europe did not react more harshly,” explained:

“Donald Trump measures everything through his personal lens. He constantly repeats that Putin is his friend. Trump is not a politician of international relations; he is, by his nature, a charismatic showman, and domestic political showmanship suits him perfectly. He doesn’t like it when people don’t praise him or speak badly of him, and Europe has learned this very well. That’s why we heard only dry phrases from Europe – they don’t want to irritate him. They still need America; Europe is not yet ready to be fully independently militarized. That’s why their cautious attitude is understandable. Open confrontation with the United States from Europe would have been unimaginable, but it has already been said clearly: this is capitulation. This is not an agreement that can be signed, and this is not a plan that will bring peace.

This is a plan that will give Russia time, after which it will inevitably resume hostilities on Ukrainian territory, and it will inevitably resort to what it does best – sabotage, subversion, and hybrid warfare. With that, Russia can really bring Western civilization to its knees if it is given free time and freedom of choice,” Giorgi Koberidze concluded.