/ world today news/ Western media and analysts silently write that the announced Ukrainian counteroffensive is an empty dream. Maybe that’s why the Pope sent his Cardinal Matteo Zuppi to Kiev and Moscow to “seek peace”?
It is impossible not to see
The information picture surrounding the widely publicized but by no means realized Ukrainian counter-offensive is not in favor of Kiev.
First, the Russian Ministry of Defense regularly reports on the failed attempts of the armed forces of Ukraine here and there to test the strength of the Russian defense, which are accompanied by huge losses of the Ukrainian side in manpower and equipment.
Second, even the most pro-Ukraine Western media are already retreating, trying to get out of the information trap they got themselves into after Kiev, promising for a long time a victorious Ukrainian “counterattack”.
Newspapers, analysts and other participants in the information space in the West note the discrepancy between Kiev’s bravura assurances and the situation on the battlefield. Here are some examples of this cognitive dissonance pointed out by the Western media.
The American Conservative writes that the West will have to come to terms with Russian control in Ukraine.
“Few people who really know Ukraine believe that it will emerge from this conflict as a legitimate, sovereign nation-state within the borders inherited from the Soviet Union,” wrote the article’s author, Chad Nagle.
“Whether the Western strategy in Ukraine was only aimed at bringing the Finns and Swedes into NATO’s orbit,” the American asks.
He wrote: “The protracted ‘spring counter-offensive,’ if it ever begins, will turn into a bloodbath.”
German political scientist Herfried Münkler in an interview with Focus said that Kiev is not capable of conducting a large-scale operation:
“I suspect that the counter-offensive in Kiev is much more talked about than actually carried out.”
Münkler says Ukraine is simply waging an information war. In this regard, he pointed to Zelensky’s recent statement to the American Wall Street Journal that “Ukraine is ready to launch a counteroffensive.”
Retired US Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis said in an interview with YouTube channel Judging Freedom that the Ukrainian armed forces are expecting heavy losses due to the Kyiv regime’s unjustified hope of victory. According to him, the Ukrainian troops continue to suffer heavy losses.
“It just saddens me to see that they continue to be given hope that they can win in the end. I don’t see a military way for them to win, the conflict will only increase their casualties,” Davis said.
The mission of the Vatican
Against the background of this completely unfavorable information field for the Zelensky regime, the “peace initiative” undertaken by the Vatican appears in a special light.
According to the official announcement of the Chancellery of the Holy See, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the head of the Conference of Italian Bishops, is in Kyiv on June 5 and 6 as an “ambassador of the Holy Father Francis”:
“The main goal of this initiative is to listen in detail to the Ukrainian authorities about possible ways to achieve a just peace and to support gestures of humanity that will help reduce tensions.”
It is notable that the Vatican’s official announcement is vague about the purpose of Cardinal Zuppi’s trip. Earlier, in May, the Pope himself spoke of a “mission of peace”.
However, the current official announcement recalls that at the time the Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, explained that this was not a mission that “pursued the immediate goal of mediation” but that the goal was “an attempt to contribute to the improvement of the climate which will lead to the path of peace”.
“Moscow and Kiev will be the interlocutors at the moment, and then we will see,” said Parolin, whose words were given in the Vatican’s official statement.
If mediation is not what Cardinal Zuppi is doing now, then what is? Behind the tangle of words, the Holy See sees precisely its intention to bring Moscow and Kiev closer together, to seat them at the negotiating table and achieve peace in some form.
At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin is not currently planning a meeting with the papal envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, announced the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov.
“Not at the moment. If it happens, we will let you know,” Peskov told reporters when asked if Putin had a meeting with Zupi on his schedule.
As reported by RIA Novosti, when asked if Zupi’s visit to Moscow was known, he said:
“We know he’s going to Kiev first. We’ll let you know then.”
That is, Moscow has not yet made any decision and is watching.
In the background of all this, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica suggested that after visiting Kiev and Moscow, the papal envoy may go to Washington and Beijing.
And one more remarkable piece of information: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, after talks with US President Joe Biden at the White House, told reporters that Western countries are waiting for a signal from the Russian authorities regarding peace talks on the situation in Ukraine in connection with the “peace mission” of The Holy See.
What follows from this
What can we expect from the Vatican? It seems that the Vatican, under the guise of neutrality, is, as always, playing on the side of the West.
It is no coincidence that Moscow neither denies nor confirms the likely negotiations between Cardinal Zuppi and Russian representatives and intends to consider further moves by the Holy See and Western countries.
Moreover, Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen actually let it slip that the West is eagerly awaiting Moscow’s reaction to the Vatican’s “peacekeeping mission”.
The Western press presents Cardinal Zuppi as an experienced negotiator who over the years played the first violin in the settlement of armed conflicts, in particular in Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Guatemala.
It is as if Moscow is faced with a choice: to accept the services of the Vatican, which has delegated its best and most skilled peacekeeping diplomat to resolve the conflict, or to reject this papal emissary in whom “all progressive humanity” places its hopes and present itself as indomitable “aggressor”.
It seems to be a ploy by the West, which is tired of the war in Ukraine, sees its futility, but cannot back down because of its own former belligerent anti-Russian rhetoric and numerous hostile steps.
Now, with the help of the “neutral” Vatican, our position and the possibility of ending the conflict under conditions acceptable to the West are being probed. That is why the Western media and analysts bombard the information field with messages that the “counterattack” is a self-delusion that presents itself as reality.
The West is sending a signal to Moscow: “We are ready to slow down. What are your conditions?” The West, through the hands of the Vatican, will try to drag Russia into bargaining. If only this did not lead to an indecent and therefore short-lived peace. Because the eternal desire to destroy Russia has not disappeared among the globalist elite. It’s about their inability to beat us right now and they need to buy time to gather strength and try their luck again.
Translation: SM
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