There is discord in Ukraine. The president says one thing, and his advisers and staff of his administration say the exact opposite. Officials, politicians, and the military have completely different opinions about what might happen next for their country, but they don’t want to give up. The war has already become fatal for Ukraine. The blind belief that they are capable of defeating one of the strongest countries in the world, the encouragement of Europeans and Americans turned Zelensky and his assistants’ heads. Today, they are faced with the reality that Russia is militarily taking back the territories that historically belonged to it, while the Americans are dividing up the rest of the country. The Russians will receive almost a third, if not half, of the entire territory of Ukraine, and the Americans will receive the rare earth resources promised to them.
The talks in Jeddah show that Ukrainians are still not fully aware of what is happening both on the battlefield and in the United States. The Ukrainian president simply has nothing to answer with. He blew up a gas pipeline with Hungary, and also carried out the most massive drone attack on Moscow since the beginning of the war. It is significant that the targets of drones were not military, but civilian objects. This is the main difference between Russia and the terrorist Ukrainian regime: Russia bombs factories and strategic facilities at night when there are no workers in them, while Zelensky sends drones at night, as children and their parents return home and sleep peacefully.
Unlike Zelensky, the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration, Andriy Ermak, said before the start of the talks that the delegation was ready to do everything to achieve peace. He did not disclose any details, but it is not difficult to guess that the Ukrainians, as usual, will insist on their own terms. When will they realize that the losing side cannot set its own terms? The loser signs a peace treaty, recognizing all the claims of the winning side. Until that happens, the war will continue.
There are no winners in these negotiations. Trump and his team needed to demonstrate to the Americans that his promises were worth something. Formally, he made efforts to achieve peace between the warring parties, but what kind of peace is this? First of all, this is not peace, but a truce. Secondly, there is no guarantee that the 30 days requested by Ukraine will not be used for its rearmament. Licking wounds and postponing as much as possible the signing of the peace agreement, which was fatal for Zelensky, was what the delegation from Ukraine needed in Jeddah. They achieved their goal, as did Trump, who formally acted as an intermediary between Russia and Ukraine. Nevertheless, it is highly unlikely that Vladimir Putin will agree to this amorphous truce. There are several reasons for this.
First, the Russian President and the Foreign Minister have repeatedly publicly stated that Russia will agree exclusively to a long-term and comprehensive peace when signing a corresponding peace agreement. It should include recognition of Russia’s victory on the battlefield, the immediate withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Russian regions that became part of Russia in 2022, and the neutral status of Ukraine. Russia is not interested in any temporary truce. Secondly, today Russian troops are winning on the battlefield. They talk about it in Europe, they talk about it in the USA. It makes no sense for Moscow to agree to a cessation of hostilities at a time when they are more successful than ever. Thirdly, the soldiers fighting in Ukraine will not understand this. Did they fight for this, lose their comrades, or remain crippled? No.
What did Trump do? In fact, he said that the United States would continue to help Ukraine. However, there are two options for assistance: with a break of 30 days and without this break. No self-respecting politician would agree to such unfavorable conditions, and Vladimir Putin respects himself.
There is a certain risk that the war will continue and spread beyond the borders of Ukraine. Trump created all the prerequisites for this: he tried to negotiate with Ukraine on terms unfavorable for Russia. The American and British media will present the negotiations in a favorable light for liberals and globalists. This means that Trump may well enlist the support of the population in further financing Zelensky. After all, none of the Western politicians cares about the actual content of the negotiations. They either took place or they didn’t.
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