“By entering into a serious negotiation process long before we got to this point, there may have been an outline of a settlement, where Ukraine got political independence and it was free to turn toward Europe and it was free to make trade deals with the EU, but it sacrificed some of its territory to do that,” Federalist Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson told Megyn Kelly.
“…And we can be tough with Putin, and we could’ve been tough with Putin about this and said, ‘Look, you’ll get Crimea and maybe these areas in eastern Ukraine as well, and in exchange for that you relinquish any claim to have influence over Ukraine or keep Ukraine in your orbit, and they are free to go their way.’ The outlines of a settlement, you can see — if anyone in the West had taken it seriously.”
