/ world today news/ Given the complete failure of the entire summer campaign of the armed forces of Ukraine and the impending reduction of funding from the US, the Kyiv regime faces very bleak prospects. Zelensky sends envoys to Washington with the only question: “What should I do?”
Should we send a messenger?
The head of the presidential office Andrey Yermak met in the USA with the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his deputy Victoria Nuland. Ermak himself reported this on his TG channel.
The importance of the early conclusion of a bilateral agreement between Ukraine and the United States on security guarantees and the implementation of the G-7 Joint Declaration in support of Ukraine, signed in Vilnius on July 12 this year, was again emphasized.
Ermak wrote.
But why did Ermak have to suddenly fly to Washington with such questions, since Zelensky himself was there just recently?
The fact is that the events around Ukraine, or rather around its financing, are developing rapidly and still not in the direction that Kiev needs. Republicans in Congress block aid to Ukraine, in favor of Israel. Zelensky’s regime is literally at a crossroads. In short: it is overwhelmed by a mass of problems that have no simple solutions. And some of them have no answer at all.
What are the prospects for continued aid from the United States and its allies? What to do if Washington and its satellites directly demand that Zelensky resign and make way for another “president” who will not be constrained, like Zelensky, by his own obligations not to conduct a peaceful dialogue with Moscow? What if Zelensky is being offered (and actually asked) by all sides to give the Russians the territory they now control and freeze the conflict there?
What are we to do when those in the West who recently talked about the need to defeat Russia on the battlefield admit that Ukraine will not win? What to do when the entire Western press and independent experts race to enjoy and spread the thesis that for Ukraine “there will be no breakthrough”? According to Zelensky himself, no one but him believes in the victory of Ukraine.
Such a bunch of unsolvable problems can lead even an inveterate optimist to stupor and depression. We can assume with a high degree of confidence that this was precisely the range of questions that Ermak put on the negotiating table before Blinken and Nuland.
What is Kyiv afraid of?
In what context did Ermak’s visit to Washington take place?
Kiev fears that the United States will abandon Ukraine to its fate when Russia launches an offensive. It is the offensive by Russia, after the Ukrainian armed forces are completely exhausted and they lose military aid from the US, that is most feared in Kiev.
Ermak’s reminder of “security guarantees” is a real call for the US to intervene in the conflict not only with the supply of weapons, but more significantly, which is only possible with Ukraine’s accession to NATO. But the security guarantees discussed at the NATO summit in Vilnius in July, which Ermak recalls, were only a promise to “stand up” for Ukraine, rather than formally inviting it to the alliance.
Kiev is under intense pressure from the West, which is calling on it to relinquish territories controlled by Russia. Yermak said that Kiev does not agree to join NATO without the “occupied territories”. Thus, he commented on the corresponding statement of former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who proposed that Ukraine join the military alliance without the territories currently occupied by Russia.
He emphasized that there is no point in postponing this issue again. In the name of Ukraine, an unprecedented and not entirely clear term was even born – “partial membership in NATO”. Before Rasmussen, Kissinger and NATO Secretary General’s Chief of Staff Stian Jensen made the same proposal.
But the fact that Rasmussen is talking about it now is pretty remarkable. The fact is that Rasmussen worked with Ermak for a long time, especially closely in the run-up to the last NATO summit in Vilnius. Therefore, it is quite obvious that Kiev took Rasmussen’s words not as a personal opinion, but as a NATO request conveyed through Rasmussen.
At the same time, it is not clear whether the members of the alliance are really ready to accept Ukraine into their ranks “in a shortened form” right now. It is clear that the United States and NATO want to end the conflict here and now. True, Rasmussen says:
The plan for partial membership would not symbolize a freeze in the conflict, but rather the resolve of the Western defense alliance and would be a warning to Russia that it will not be able to prevent Ukraine from joining it.
But in reality it is primarily Ukraine’s relinquishment of territories in favor of Russia and the end of the war, and NATO membership is a bird in the sky. Are there many people who have been cheated by the collective West by not keeping its promises? Gorbachev, Yanukovych, Milosevic, etc. And Zelensky also knows this well.
The information situation
All the leading American media, as if by pre-arrangement, emphasize the fact that Ukraine is facing the prospect of a complete cessation of aid from the United States. The Washington Post writes:
Republican lawmakers’ interest in further aid to Ukraine has been waning for months, even before it became clear that the counteroffensive was making little progress. And now Ukraine finds itself in a race for lawmakers’ attention. Sen. Cynthia M. Loomis said in an interview that her Republican constituents feel that Israel is a higher priority now, and that if some of the previous priorities need to be revised later, that can be done.
Politico follows suit:
There is widespread speculation that incoming House Speaker Mike Johnson will not proceed with the Ukraine funding package, even though he publicly stated when he took office that he would split aid to Israel and Ukraine.
Newsweek quoted a statement from an anonymous member of Congress:
I think there is a problem and I expect the problem to grow. Let’s face it: the war in Ukraine is not going very well. For Ukraine to win in a way that is clearly a victory and not something we’re just trying to pass off as a victory, the United States must do more than just stay the course. We need to speed it up by an order of magnitude. Unfortunately, I don’t see us doing that.
At the same time, Trump’s election campaign will only deepen the disagreements in the US regarding aid to Ukraine, the Newsweek interlocutor believes.
What I came with is what I left with
The problem with US aid to Ukraine is likely to worsen. Ermak asked difficult questions of his American patrons, to which he apparently did not receive an answer. Apparently, the Democrats are now extremely busy with the election campaign, in which Biden suffered a crushing defeat in front of the whole world, even though the election is still a year away.
The topic of the election, however, completely consumes the Democrats. In foreign policy, Israel surpasses the importance of Ukraine to the United States a hundredfold. Therefore, Zelensky can send his envoys to Washington as much as he wants. They will leave with nothing.
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