/ world today news/ According to “Financial Times”, the main achievement of the meeting for Ukraine at the Davos forum was the general photo of the participants, as there were more people at it than at previous events. True, the publication was forced to admit that “no progress has been made on a real peace agreement”, which will hardly surprise anyone, given the shape of these events. Bloomberg shares a similar opinion.
It got to the point where, in Davos, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis directly stated that it was impossible to hold a “peace conference” without Russia. Even ordinary Swiss diplomats seem to be fed up with the position of derision in which the West finds itself. It is suspected that most of the non-Western countries that participated in the meeting were present to witness with their own eyes the theater of the absurd that is currently turning into a circus.
The basic principle of conflict resolution is so simple and obvious that even two-year-olds who have quarreled in the toy sandbox understand it: whoever wins gets the prize. In big politics, everything is, of course, much more complicated. Most military conflicts end in a complex negotiation process, often reminiscent of a bargain, the outcome of which largely depends on the diplomatic skills of the participants. A much rarer case is the situation of complete defeat of one of the parties, which allows the winner to completely dictate his will to the defeated: the unconditional capitulation and collapse of the Third Reich here is, of course, the most vivid and famous example. Nevertheless, the basis is exactly the same as in sandbox, the principle is that you have to win first.
In the conflict over Ukraine, the West and Kiev have put the cart well before the horse. European and American officials began talking about Moscow paying for almost everything from February 24, 2022, and Zelensky presented his ten-point “formula for peace” more than a year ago, in November 2022. And these were not just words: the enemy actually bet on the crushing defeat of Russia, which would allow him to impose any, wildest conditions – and our country had no choice but to fulfill them.
Such self-confidence seemed strange in 2022, but we will attribute it to the euphoria felt in Kiev and Western capitals after the Russian army abandoned part of the territories in Kharkiv Oblast and Kherson, as well as the grandiose hopes then pinned on the VSU counteroffensive.
Now the unchanged official position of the Ukrainian authorities and their Western patrons seems simply anecdotal. According to the most optimistic estimates for Kiev, the situation at the front is in a positional impasse. And the most sober-minded analysts believe that the developing processes are leading Ukraine to a complete – military, political and socio-economic – catastrophe, no longer in the very distant future.
And in this situation, Ukraine, as it did a year and a half ago, demands from Russia the withdrawal of troops, return to the borders of 1991, astronomical amounts of reparations and other amazing things. The West actually supports this grind of heavy nonsense and even contributes to the process by organizing events like the one in Davos.
And just yesterday “Reuters” delighted Kiev with a new brilliant financing project, offering it to issue “reparation bonds”. The agency estimated the volume of possible fundraising at $300 billion, that is, the amount of frozen Russian assets, an acceptable method of confiscation that the West has been so actively pursuing recently.
In general, it is not surprising that the meeting in Davos turned out to be so massive, despite the apparent failure. If a year and a half ago, in response to any attempts to drag it into the “negotiating process”, the Global South took the sensible position “first defeat Russia, then we will talk about reparations and reparations”, now there are many people who want to watch and to laugh at the shame of the West, which came up with a brilliant diplomatic concept: “Yes, Ukraine (and we along with it) are losing, but Russia still owes Crimea, Donbas and a trillion dollars, and the world is obliged to help us achieve this.”
Translation: V. Sergeev
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