Letter from Zelensky to the President of Russia. “It was planned with Washington.”
Jan Piekło: There is no doubt that the entire action was consulted internationally with Washington.
In fact, Donald Trump's reaction was immediate.
I am convinced that it was all carefully planned. This is even more so when voices come from Washington about a military aid package for Ukraine, i.e. explicit support for this country. All of this looks very promising.
After four years of war, will there finally be a breakthrough?
This is certainly an important move by President Zelensky, but I would be cautious about looking at it as a breakthrough. This is still a long way off. However, this move with a letter to Putin was intended to demonstrate the weakness of the Russian president from the very beginning. Anyway, this letter is quite powerful. The effect is that Putin invites Zelensky to Moscow.
And Zelensky is not going to Moscow.
He used to go to Moscow with his concerts, but in the current situation he will not go there. And rightly so.
President Trump has already sided with Ukraine many times, and then one phone call from Moscow was enough for him to immediately change his mind.
I see all this in the context of a long-term political game. It's not that President Trump doesn't know what he's talking about. He will sometimes consciously say something like this, only to later either continue his idea in some other format or withdraw from it. But this is a conscious action. This is his way of conducting politics.
It is completely unpredictable.
What amazes me is that we don't take one thing into account: this is not Trump's first term, but his second. We've had time to learn his way of doing things, but we don't want to learn. We still treat Trump as a friend of Russia and an enemy of the European Union, which is not true.
Because he has tried to force Zelensky to completely surrender more than once. Today he also says that concessions must be made on both sides.
First of all, the Russians must withdraw from Ukraine and only then can negotiations take place. However, this is the beginning of a difficult process. As a rule, a war ends with some form of agreement. This was the case after World War I and II. It will be the same this time, but we must be more humble towards certain phenomena. And not to make judgments that could simply be misleading.
Do you believe in the end of the war soon?
I believe in the imminent end of Putin. And I think its end is around the corner. And the end of Putin will be the end of the war.
Putin will lose to Ukraine, to Russian society, to himself, to whom?
Ukraine is apparently starting to regain its territories and is severely attacking strategic targets in Russia. If anyone follows the discussions of Russian military bloggers, they show that those who were previously favorable to Putin no longer trust him. I think that the end of Putin is indeed fast approaching.
Attacking Ukraine was supposed to be the end of it, but nothing like that happened.
It was the same with Adolf Hitler's advances in the first phase of World War II. Apparently Putin has lost momentum. I know that the Wall Street Journal recently published an article about how Putin is trying to get fit and achieve the stage of immortality. It really resembles the fate of Adolf Hitler.
Expert: the end of Putin's regime is in sight, and maybe even of Russia itself
“We have seen intelligence reports indicating that you are currently considering plans to continue the war into 2027 and 2028.” — Zelensky wrote to Putin. It looks like Russia is arming itself for the coming years.
Especially after the forum in St. Petersburg, which took place in the shadow of Ukrainian drone attacks and fire. You know, dictators tend to fall. A recent example was Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro. I'm sure it will be the same with Putin. We just need to be a little patient.
How long will all this take?
I think the war is inevitably heading towards the end of Vladimir Putin's regime, and maybe even Russia itself. After all, no one has any idea what to do with the soldiers who return from the front.
What will probably happen is what the Russians did after the Bolshevik revolution, i.e. a civil war will break out. It may turn out that Janusz Bugajski, an outstanding expert of the US Department of Defense and The Jamestown Foundation, was right when he wrote in his book about the path to the collapse of the Russian Federation.
And Donald Trump will play a key role in this collapse, or will he change his mind again, as he has done so far?
This is the overall puzzle. I think that the Washington administration, and above all the Secretary of State, the American equivalent of Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, knows perfectly well that Ukraine is very important to the United States.
