Spanish King Felipe VI told Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during his visit to Spain that lasting peace for Ukraine "must be based on respect for national sovereignty and territorial integrity," El Mundo reported on April 26.
Lula has acknowledged Ukraine's right to defend itself against Russia but repeatedly favored diplomatic solutions over supplying defense aid. The Brazilian president sparked outrage with several of his comments regarding the war, saying in early April that Ukraine should be open to the idea of giving up Crimea to ensure peace with Russia.
After meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on April 15, Lula also said that the U.S. should stop "encouraging war" in Ukraine and "start talking about peace."
Lula's meeting with the king came after disagreements on the war in Ukraine with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez during a joint press conference.
It is allegedly Lula's hope that Spain joins a coalition of countries that can help broker peace between Ukraine and Russia. However, Spain has not chosen a neutral stance as Brazil has, with the country supplying tanks and other weapons to Ukraine.
During the press conference, Sánchez thanked Lula for his peace plan, but added, “In this war, there is an aggressor and a victim, and the aggressor is Putin," according to ABC News.
Lula said "there is no doubt" that Brazil condemned "Russia's violation of Ukraine’s rights with the invasion, but it is of no use to say who is right or wrong. The war must be stopped," ABC News wrote.
rcglinsk on April 27th, 2023 at 15:46 UTC »
I was in elementary school when the Cold War ended, so I'm going off what I've read over the decades here:
It used to be just fine and acceptable to everyone that some people were in the realist camp and other people were in the idealist camp. Regardless of whether someone was themselves a realist or an idealist, they all agreed that each other had a viewpoint, that this was not a division between good and evil, but rather how different people prioritized and looked at the world. And further each side had something useful to offer, that these were complementary viewpoints that needed to cooperate with each other.
The past is a foreign country and there may be no going back. But I still lament how everything now seems like a pure morality play with no tolerance for let's be realistic.
h1nds on April 27th, 2023 at 14:51 UTC »
Lula os basically China’s puppet.
KI_official on April 27th, 2023 at 12:18 UTC »
Submission Statement:
The recent visit of Brazilian President Lula to Spain brought to light some controversy. While Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Lula disagree on how to approach ending the war, King Felipe VI has taken a firm stand on the issue, insisting that lasting peace can only be achieved through respect for national sovereignty and territorial integrity. However, Lula's calls for diplomatic solutions and his controversial comments suggesting Ukraine should give up Crimea have sparked outrage.