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The split screen is scary. On the one hand, the White House, where its policies are in turn intense, revisionist, and sometimes seem to urgently need clarification. The other is Ukraine, where President Volodymie Zelensky is out and looking out in peace talks, where hundreds of people die every day on the frontline where Moscow is winning, and children are bombing Russia. It is frequently pulled out from the rooftop rub.
With Ukraine’s brutal war approaching its third year, there is a risk that the two visions will no longer be reconciled.
The contradictory position of the White House is a blaming part of what is here. US Secretary of Defense Peter Hegses has seen an astonishing week in which Ukraine said they couldn’t join NATO or acquire pre-2014 borders. He either inadvertently broadcast the main board of secret peace deals between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, or dedicated a key part of Ukrainian diplomatic negotiations to the shock of Europe.
All Ukrainian allies may actually know that they will not join NATO any time soon or will not regain their borders when East and Crimea are picked up, but not before that, Russia It was maintained as a concession to make concessions. negotiation.
It continues to come.
US Vice President JD Vance told the Wall Street Journal that the United States could clearly send troops to Ukraine in extreme circumstances. Did he really reveal the opposite pole of Hegses’ comment in Brussels that American soldiers won’t go to Ukraine? When addressing Munich’s European allies about primarily fictional totalitarianism in Western democracy, why did he not mention Russia at all? Also, did Trump miss peak when he said there were “high-level people” in Munich from Russia, Ukraine and the US for major security conferences?
It appears that Moscow and Kiev did not think that anyone at that level would go to Munich for such consultations. Or is there a secret story going on about Trump not being able to keep quiet?
During this short whiplash period, the worst battlefield estimates have killed or wounded up to 5,000 troops on the Ukraine frontline. Romania and Moldova complain that Russian drones will interfere with the airspace. At least 13 civilians have been killed and 72 injured in the Russian attack on Ukraine. Ukraine said on Friday that a Russian drone was fired at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
There’s a war going on – and Russia is earning it at a great cost for Ukraine – the White House seems to be thinking what it actually is thinking in public.
The Ukrainian border behind these shaky positions in NATO membership and the Ukrainian US military have been calling multiple times since he came, what Trump and Putin are talking about. There is a dark truth that simply doesn’t know about this. White House.
First, it is important to look back at the precedent here. Trump quarantined the Kremlin from the West for three years without making any concessions. He released Mark Vogel. It appears that for Alexander Vinnik, he was accused of running a multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency exchange, giving Moscow a surprising and warm moment of rehabilitation for American television audiences. However, so far, there have been no concessions from Russia to Ukraine.
Instead, there was Trump’s strange revisionism that suggested Russia had invaded as Ukraine was trying to join NATO.
Again, Russia invaded unprovoked Ukraine in 2022 out of concern needed to project strength along the boundary, and mistakenly misunderstood the invasion would take weeks, and weapons I misunderstood that it would be welcome.
Ukraine wanted a warmer relationship with the European Union and perhaps dreamed of joining NATO one day, but in the same way Zelensky would have dreamed about being a boy who would join the Beatles someday. Neither of them happened immediately.
The revisionist notion that Russia acted to stop Ukraine’s NATO membership is a topic of discussion in the Kremlin. And now it’s clear that Trump spent more time talking to Putin than Zelensky. He suggested that Zelensky’s time in office might soon be over, as the elections would have to be held in the end and his poll numbers were “not particularly large to put it gently.”
It is difficult to underestimate the impact of the world’s most powerful man, suggesting that wartime commanders lack current mandates, and may need to be aside soon. This is probably part of a private plan. That’s certainly what Putin wants, as elections are undoubtedly chaos and produces mandates that are questioned. Above all, it is potentially catastrophic for Ukrainian morale. Soldiers must agree that major financial aids will continue to risk the president’s lives, considering lame ducks.
This is where the two split screens collide.
Trump’s world is something that can massage off the cuff’s statements, and his telegenic cabinet, as a major consequence, overturns the world’s security paradigm every hour. Their echo chambers provide peace of mind feeding back the revised version of the policy. On the other side of the screen, watch the Ukrainians die, lose territory, apartment blocks are reduced to tile rub, consider escape, and see the backbone of Western support dissolve.
This is all a symphony of chaos for the Kremlin. They know what their purpose is. And it’s very publicly certain that the important enemy they actually fear, the United States, is what it wants, what it wants, and what that red line is. When you’re there, it’s a lot.
Peace negotiations have begun, but the sand is risking not only shifting for Ukraine, but also rushing.
