On Monday, May 19 in the morning, Wołodymyr Zełnski was still optimistic. He hoped that Donald Trump during a telephone conversation would threaten the sanctions of his counterpart in Moscow. Instead, Vladimir Putin and the US president talked about business for two hours and got along well.
The conversation with Trump apparently made the Kremlin in such a good mood that on Thursday, May 22, for the first time since the beginning of the war, Moscow made it clear what her war strategy is.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ławrow said: – We do not want any suspension of weapons. Thus, the phase of hope ends, which began with Trump's call to the truce in March – And during which Russian aggressors never once showed willingness to cooperate.
Europe, America and Ukraine unanimously demanded a 30-day suspension of weapons, during which peace could be discussed. However, Russia said loudly and clearly: “Nie”.
This is not surprising. No side of the conflict in the history of humanity has put weapons from the position of strength. War theory says that only the one who no longer sees a military output sits at the negotiating table. And Russia is far from it.
In addition, as he indicates in an interview with Blick Gulnaz Partschefeld, a former Russian presenter of messages, Russia needs a military victory to justify a huge dedication of about 900 thousand. soldiers killed or wounded so far.
The shocking remains how Trump reacts to the cool reception of all peaceful efforts by the Russians: with full understanding. “Putin believes that he will win the war,” Trump told journalists. He announced that Ukrainians and Russians now have to solve this problem themselves. He also does not intend to impose any new sanctions on Russia – although this is what almost 80 percent demands. American Senate.
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Trump turns out to be who the Russians have called “useful idiots” since Lenin, who – without realizing it – play Russia with their actions. In the new document of the German television ZDF Jurij Szwec, a former KGB agent, explains that from the 1980s Trump was seen in Moscow as “someone with quite low IQ, with excessive vanity and narcissism.”
Moscow plays with Trump, and Europe is trying to act on its own. The EU has just adopted the 17th Package of Sanctions against Russia and opened the SAFE Defense Fund worth EUR 150 billion (PLN 638 billion) for the purchase of a new weapon. The new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz went to Lithuania on Thursday to participate on the first day of work of 5,000 German soldiers from the Armored Brigade, who from now on to strengthen NATO's eastern flank.
A chance for Ukraine
In his recent statements, Zelanski says a lot about “pressure”, which should be exerted on Russia at all levels. It is a pity that Trump, like a safety valve, appears wherever Putin's pressure becomes unpleasant.
It seems that it will be difficult to save Trump from the clutches of Putin's propaganda, and the last days are proof. Unless his favorite daughter Ivanka repeats the trick, which she applied to her father eight years ago – this time in relation to Ukraine.
In April 2017, she showed him photos of dead Syrian children who were strangled after the gas attack of the Bashar al-Assad regime. It was so angry so far the passive US president that a few hours later he ordered to carry out a raid on the Assad military bases.
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