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Feb 13, 2025
War in Ukraine
Headline: Donald Trump opens the door to Vladimir Putin’s grandest ambitions
Sub-headline: Russian leader wants a new security architecture to give his country a sphere of influence in Europe
https://www.ft.com/content/2bf263a0-9768-4049-8f7d-239940a49efb
Editor: Max Seddon in Berlin and Christopher Miller in Kyiv write on the Putin Victory that is almost certain?
Vladimir Putin’s initial plan to capture Ukraine in a few days ended in disaster. But after Donald Trump set up direct peace talks with Moscow, bypassing Kyiv and European allies, the Russian president is now closer than ever to getting what he wanted from his three-year-long invasion.
Putin’s main ambition, said people who have spoken to him during the war, is to establish a new security architecture that gives Russia a sphere of influence in Europe — much as the Yalta conference did for the Soviet Union at the end of the second world war.
Now, the US may be open to letting him have it. Defence secretary Pete Hegseth has dismissed Ukraine’s aspirations to join Nato and reclaim its territory from Russia. Putin and Trump discussed “bilateral economic co-operation”, suggesting that the US was prepared to roll back its sanctions against Moscow.
And Trump appears intent on rolling back the US’s commitment to Nato and leaving to European countries the job of sustaining a peace.
“The situation looks much more favourable for Putin than at any point during the entire war over the last three years,” said Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin. “If the US just unilaterally ends its military and diplomatic support, as well as intelligence sharing, then Ukraine will be in a very tough position. And it’ll be hard to get out of it even if the Europeans get more involved.”
In Moscow, there was palpable joy following Wednesday’s call between Trump and Putin.
“A single call can change the course of history — today, the leaders of the US and Russia have possibly opened a door to a future shaped by co-operation, not confrontation,” said Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian sovereign wealth fund chief involved in back-channel talks with the US over prisoner exchanges.
Editor: Note the source in the above paragraph : said Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian sovereign wealth fund chief involved in back-channel talks ! The Reader must wonder at the insertion of the photograph of Churchill, Stalin and FDR at Yalta… as a mispaced mood setter, toward what purpose? Reader save yourself from the agony of this propganda and procede to the the final paragraphs of this 1,290 word diatribe!
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Zelenskyy told reporters on Thursday that it was “not very pleasant” to know that Trump spoke to Ukraine’s adversary first. He insisted he “will not accept . . . any bilateral negotiations about Ukraine without us”.
What was imperative, Zelenskyy added, was to “not allow everything to go according to Putin’s plan”.
Kyiv had hoped it could convince Trump to work out a common position on bringing Russia to the table, and had offered access to its reserves of rare earth metals in return for US support.
For now, Kyiv and its European allies are looking on, aghast, from the outside, fearful the US will strike an unfavourable deal with Putin to end the war — and stick them with the bill.
“Trump is proving to be as bad as we feared. He is willing to make a deal with Putin at the expense of Ukraine, and still wants Ukraine to pay him in mineral resources,” said Volodymyr Kulyk, a professor of political science at the Kyiv School of Economics. “The question is what Ukraine and Europe will do.”
Editor: Recall that Victoria Nuland and United States Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt along with NATO, the EU, George Soros , The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Neo-Consevetive front group, while Obama remained at a safe distance? On The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Muhammad Sahimi has written a revelatory essay at Lobe Log:
Behind the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Embrace of Authoritarianism
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