Many problems arise due to miscommunication. And this "Kellogg's Map", which filled the film and generated righteous anger among Ukrainians - from the same opera. Not that I want to be Kellogg's lawyer, and I am not an expert in international politics. But here is my personal/subjective vision for a better (and perhaps correct) understanding of the picture.
This map is not about the division of Ukraine. It is about freezing the conflict. (Stopping) the war at this stage.
Is such a freeze appropriate now? How beneficial is it to us and the enemy? Is it better to continue further, until the enemy is exhausted? This is a field for reasoned discussion.
As for the map, the first thing to look at and discuss is the demarcation line with the red sector on the map. That is, the current LBZ and the "buffer zone" along it.
Let me remind you that we had similar heavy artillery withdrawal zones or disengagement zones in Donbas during the ATO and in 2019-2021. It worked so-so. Or rather, it didn't work - a low-intensity war was taking place, soldiers were dying.
As for West Berlin, go to Wikipedia and enlighten yourself. If you leave out the reflections about the parallels with the Allied zones of responsibility in the first years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, the bottom line is that from then on West Berlin was unified and actually integrated with the Federal Republic of Germany, a NATO member state. And after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the communist part of Berlin and the GDR gladly joined these damn successful capitalists. The Soviet/Russian troops were withdrawn. Actually, this is how the period of Soviet occupation of East Germany ended.
If you noticed, the Ukrainian authorities are trying in every possible way to attract a contingent of NATO troops to the territory of Ukraine. If its "zone of responsibility" reaches at least the Dnieper, this is debatable. I suppose this would mean protection from missile and drone strikes on this zone. By the way, Portnikov wrote about the same thing a year ago.
Again, returning to the map. On the blue part there are not only the flags of Britain and France, but also of Ukraine.
Accordingly, jokes about the fate of Troyeshchyna and Poznyak or comparisons with Yanukovych's campaign about "three varieties of Ukraine" are irrelevant here.
And if that's the case, the map shows that NATO troops should hold a piece of the LBZ from Zaporizhia to Kherson and then the Black Sea coast in the Odessa region. Hm, why not an option? At least some real help.
But at this point we finally take off our rose-colored glasses and realize that all of this is most likely unrealistic. Therefore, we should do our part in any case and not stop.
Source: facebook.com/dmytro.lykhoviy
