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Meeting of the extraordinary oval office on Friday between President Donald Trump, vice-president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy I got out of the rails, leaving hopes for a peace agreement on the United States between Russia and Ukraine in question. Here are some reasons why Things were going wrongAnd where he leaves efforts to end the war.
1 and 1 Zelenskyy does not understand – or deliberately ignores – the bitter truth: those with whom he feels the most affinity (Western globalists, the American left, Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those he obviously does not like or does not try to embarrass (as with his Scranton, Penn. campaign In September 2024) only has the power to save it. For himself, I hope he is not “informed” by the Obama-Clinton-Biden gang to face Trump, since their interests are not really Ukraine as they pretend.
2. Zelenskyy acts as if his program and ours were identical. He therefore continues to insist on the fact that he is fighting for us despite our distance to two oceanas that he laughs. We have many common interests with Ukraine, but not the whole: Trump wants to “reset” Russia and triangulate it against China. He seeks to avoid a DEFCON 2 type crisis in 1962 on a confrontation by proxy near a nuclear rival. And he sincerely wants to end the Stalingrad slaughterhouse in the dead end for the good of everyone.
Friday, Trump and Zelensky were involved in an oval office match (Fox News)
3. Europeans (and Canada) are now talking about a new muscular antithesis, independent of American promises, promises – data that would force Europeans to cut their state of social protection, to smash, to use nuclear, to stop the green obsession and to spend 3 to 5% of their GDP in defense. The United States does not pay only 16% of the NATO budget, but also sets up asymmetrical prices which result in a surplus of European Union trade of $ 160 billion, play the world cop, patrolling sea lines and dissuading terrorists and thugs states which could otherwise interrupt European networks abroad, including Europe, under a nuclear ommende of 6,500 nakes.
4. Zelenskyy should know that all the obstacles to former revolutionary peace have been settled. Ukraine is now better armed than most NATO countries, but will not be in NATO, and no president has or will never provide Ukraine to the armed means of bringing Donbass and Crimea. Thus, the only two problems are a) how far Putin will be willing to withdraw at its borders in 2022 and b) How will it be dissuaded? The first is answered by a commercial sector / Tripwire, a joint corridor for the development of Ukrainian-American-USE resources in eastern Ukraine, coupled with a Korea type DMZ; The second by the fact that Putin, unlike her 2008 and 2014 invasions, has now committed a million dead and injured in Ukraine who will remain armed.
5 That are Zelenskyy alternatives Without much American help – awaits a return from democrats to the White House in four years? Hope for a rearmed Europe? Pray for a democratic house and a third Trump of Trump of Vindman type? Or swallow his pride, return to the White House, sign the rare-Terraine mineral agreement, invite to euros (are they seriously willing to patrol a DMZ?), And hope that Trump can warn Putin, because he succeeded between 2017-21, so as not to dare to try it again?
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the 2024 federal budget draft and the 2025 and 2026 planning period, via a video link to the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on September 18, 2023 (Sputnik / Mikhail Metzel / Pool)
6. If there is a ceasefire, a trade agreement, a ground presence in euros and the influx of Western companies in Ukraine, would there be elections? And if so, would Zelenskyy and his party win? And if not, would there be a transparent successor government which would reveal exactly where all the money of Western financial aid took place?
7 Zelenskyy could see a model in Netanyahu. The Biden administration was much more difficult for him than Trump on Ukraine, suspended arms expeditions, demanding ceasefies, producing for a bipartite cabinet in wartime, hammering Israel on collateral damage-of which none of the Westerners demanded from Zelenskyy. However, Netanyahu managed a hostile president Biden, kept Israel near his boss and, during the visit, was kind for his host. Netanyahu would certainly never be before that the world media would not have interrupted and reprimanded a host and a owner in the White House.
8. If Ukraine has alienated the United States, what is its strategic victory plan? Wait for more euros? Do you hold an increasingly invigorated Russian soldier? Gives way more territory? What exactly are Zelenskyy’s cards, does he seem to think of a winning hand?
9. If you carefully consider the entire 50 -minute band, most were going well – until Zelenskyy started to correct Vance first, and Trump secondly. By Ukraine, stimulating his hosts, and by his gestures, his tone and his interruptions, he clearly indicated that he assumed that Trump was just more of the same conforming and distraught silver bags Biden Waxen Effigie. And it was naive for such a so-called worldly leader.
10. March 2025 is not March 2022, after the heroic savings of kyiv, but three years and 1.5 million dead and injured later. Zelenskyy is no longer the international heart of the glamorous entourage. He postponed the elections, prohibited the opposition media and the parties, suspended the Habeas Corpus and came out of the negotiations when he had a uniform hand in the spring of 2022 and apparently even when he will not do so in the spring of 2025.
Quo Vadis, Volodymyr?
