Even with negotiations ongoing, the war between Russia and Ukraine shows no signs of ending anytime soon.
Top Ukraine advisors are in the United States this week for peace plan negotiations, although Russian leader Vladimir Putin has said talks with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are “pointless.” Last week, according to ABC News, the US said Ukraine had agreed to terms of a peace plan, including a point not to increase the size of its military. As part of his monthly Morning Show visit on KVOE’s airwaves recently, Kansas Second District Congressman Derek Schmidt said he wants to see the war end without “any direct US involvement.”
Not determined with the plan is whether Ukraine will give any territory to Russia and whether Ukraine can apply for NATO membership in the future.
Schmidt says the Trump administration has been insistent in having European leaders take more of a leadership role when it comes to the immediate war and its potential after-effects, and he says that is a good development with the war ongoing for over a decade.
Separately, Schmidt commented on the recent battle between President Trump and several Democratic members of Congress, all with military or intelligence experience, who urged current military service personnel to resist what they believe are illegal orders — followed almost immediately by a Trump social media post saying the Democrats should be tried for sedition.
Schmidt also says the approach the Democrats took was wrong.
Generally, sedition is defined as any attempt to disrupt or resist the federal government. ABC News says federal criminal code lays out specific and hard-to-prove circumstances: two or more suspects conspiring “to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.” Click here for the link to the federal criminal code on sedition.
Federal investigators have been looking to investigate the lawmakers in question over the past week. Schmidt says that’s the wrong approach to take, urging others in Washington to refocus on issues important to people across the country.
