On America’s Thanksgiving Day,
2025, Dmytro Kuleba, a former foreign minister of Ukraine, was asked whether Ukraine’s
government officials could trust American officials negotiating with the Russian
officials, given the fact that Steve Witkoff, the U.S. Envoy at the time, had
recently been caught coaching Kirill Dmitriev, a top Russian official, on how
to get U.S. President Don Trump on the side of Putin even though the ongoing
Russian invasion of Ukraine was still in violation of international law, which,
by the way, trumps historical reasons, such as a lost Russian empire. Stalin’s
forced famine in Ukraine during the 1930s would seem to nullify any imperial
claims from the past. Kuleba relied to the journalist’s question with, “Not
really, but we do not have another America.”[1]
He was really giving Europe a wake-up call, but the problem there was not a
lack of consensus, but a structural deficiency in the federal system of the
European Union.
The full essay is at "We Don't Have Another America."
1. Mared Gwyn Jones, “European Decision-Making on Ukraine ‘Embarrassing,’ Former Foreign Minister Kuleba Says,” Euronews.com, November 27, 2025.
