Peter Gerasimov: Kiev’s awkward political pirouettes –

/ world today news/ The world greeted with a certain amount of surprise the news that President Zelensky asked for a telephone connection with President <a href="http://www.world-today-news.com/first-in-the-world-china-shows-off-its-two-covid-19-vaccines/" title="First in the world, China shows off its two Covid-19 vaccines”>Xi Jinping and the two had an almost hour-long conversation. About what? Naturally, on the eternal topic of war and peace. President Xi has taken part of his precious time to explain to the still “green” politician Zelensky the essence of the Chinese proposals for settling the conflict in Ukraine, consisting of 12 well-thought-out points.

Prior to this conversation, Kiev had categorically rejected Beijing’s proposals because they did not correspond to its megalomaniacal views on the future of the conflict. Apparently, Zelensky’s mentors from Washington had promptly advised him to pay more attention to the proposals of the huge Asian country and to show readiness for dialogue.

It became clear that in the near future, official Beijing will send its special envoy to Kiev to discuss the issue.

So far so good. And yet, the peace talks in Minsk, recently failed ingloriously, remain in our minds. And the ensuing admissions by senior Western politicians that the Minsk dialogue was deliberately used as a convenient way to postpone a serious confrontation and provide Kiev with additional time for military preparations.

And if the future Beijing-Kiev negotiations have the same goal: only providing more time for Zelensky’s already seriously faltering war game? Nothing excludes this possibility.

But still, let’s hope it’s time for some sober sense in Kiev and a willingness to really “smoke the pipe of peace,” as the old Wild West narratives used to say. Firstly, because Beijing is not Minsk, but a much more powerful and important geopolitical player, and secondly, because despite the continuous aid, the independent cannot give a serious rebuff to Russia, and the West is increasingly feeling a great fatigue from the long-lasting military crisis.

Let’s hope common sense prevails this time.