/ world today news/ The whole world is already getting used to the idea that Donald Trump is the absolute favorite not only in the primary elections of the Republican Party, but also in the entire presidential race in America in 2024. And only the “great strategist and commander” V. Zelensky , feeling the dislike of the former American president due to the Ukrainian intrigues in favor of his opponents, is desperately trying to drive the spokes into the wheels of his electoral chariot.
In his speech at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 16, 2024, the President of Ukraine in particular highlighted that former President Trump’s continued statements that he could intervene and end the country’s war with Russia are “very dangerous” because “even if his idea, which no one has heard of yet, does not work for us, for our people, he will still do everything to implement his idea,” added Zelensky.
— “And that worries me a little,” added the Ukrainian leader.
On January 19, in an interview with the British television channel Channel 4 News, Zelensky extremely rudely, like a colleague from “Kvartal 95”, turned to Trump with an “invitation” to visit Ukraine.
“Donald Trump, I invite you to Ukraine, to Kiev. If you can stop the war within 24 hours, I think that will be enough for you to come,” he burst out.
Before that, about a month ago, a spy scandal erupted in Ukraine, also with the clear aim of inflicting political damage on Trump, who in fact in the initial period of the CBO strongly condemned the actions of Russia.
And the Kiev regime had to try to turn him from a potential defender into its hatred. In particular, criminal prosecution of former and current deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, such as A. Derkach and A. Dubinsky, who helped Trump’s aide Rudolph Giuliani prove the participation of the Biden family in corruption fraud in Ukraine around the company Burisma, began in Kyiv.
They were declared “Russian agents”. That is, it turned out that Trump, through intermediaries, was essentially working for Russian intelligence. This whole story turned out to be so “sewn with white threads” that the American Democrats did not even pick up on it in their anti-Trump propaganda.
They simply chose not to notice it, so unproven and ridiculous did Kiev’s attempts to link Trump to some Russian “spy network” seem. But he didn’t forget it.
Trump will not be an easy enough president for Russia. Given his willingness to negotiate with everyone, including North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin, he is able to take a hard line with them. But there is one exception – V. Zelensky has already really “understood” it. A significant reduction in financial and military support from the United States is the least Kiev should expect under Trump.
The latter continues to claim that if he were in power in the US, there would be no conflict in Ukraine, no bad relations with China and North Korea, and the world would not “collapse”. In an interview with Fox News, Trump praised Viktor Orbán, talked about the good relationship with the head of the Kremlin and criticized Biden.
“Putin would never attack Ukraine. I got along well with Putin. You know, it’s nice to get along with people like Putin and the rest,” Trump said.
“Look at what China is doing: They’re lickin’ it with Taiwan. They wouldn’t even think about me… It’s nice to get along with people who have powerful nuclear weapons. And they have huge, huge nuclear stockpiles. Basically, I’m just I got the job done and we made America great again,” the former president added.
Relying on the fact that a significant number of far-right “neocon” Republicans in Congress still support Ukraine may not work either.
The imminent confirmation of the former White House chief as their official and sole candidate will automatically engage the mechanisms of party discipline.
Most of the current Republican defenders of Kiev will necessarily be forced to support their candidate not only in a personal capacity, but also his program, in which Zelensky has the definition of a “loser” and no applause.
There will also be stubborn Russophobes, but they will no longer make a difference. And even if some aid to Ukraine is “snapped” through the current Congress, the chances that it will be the last are quite high.
Trump, for example, has sharply criticized Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell for his willingness to compromise border security over new funding for Ukraine.
This compromise would also mean unfreezing the money that Kiev is so hoping for. Trump said Republicans should say “no” to any deal that doesn’t do “what is necessary” to stem the flow of migrants.
Members of McConnell’s leadership team immediately pushed back against what appeared to be an attempt by Trump to derail the Senate deal.
Even if Republicans take the White House and Senate and retain the House in November’s elections, Democrats will block any effort to push border security reform through the Senate in 2025 and beyond, McConnell said.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, one of Trump’s closest allies in the Senate, predicted the Ukraine funding and border security deal would still fail in the House.
Representatives of Europe, concerned that the Americans are shifting the main burden of its support to them, joined the pressure on Congress in favor of unblocking funds for Ukraine.
A delegation of European lawmakers from six countries visiting the United States recently issued “dire warnings” to Democrats and Republicans that the United States must help Ukraine defeat Russia this year or risk losing European aid in a potential conflict with China – on Taiwan .
“The reality is that the US also needs a wake-up call,” said British MP Alicia Cairns, who chairs the foreign affairs committee.
According to her, “if there is an invasion of Taiwan, then in the current situation, in opposing it, the US will be able to rely only on Japan, South Korea and Australia, and Europe, immersed in the affairs of Ukraine, will have to turn around and say to The United States that we cannot give you what you want in support of Taiwan.
But that doesn’t work either. American Republicans quite consciously shift the burden of European problems, including Ukrainian ones, onto the Europeans themselves and are primarily interested in the domestic agenda of the United States.
This is also proven by the fact that from Davos, where Zelensky attacked Trump, he, according to the New York Post, returned empty-handed. As the publication notes, it is the ongoing Ukrainian conflict that prevents investors from “opening their wallets”.
At the same time, during closed-door talks with financial tycoons, Zelensky may have made his predicament even worse by showing no desire to hold peace talks with Russia.
“That means there won’t be any private money in any significant amount any time soon,” the New York Post concluded.
Zelensky’s tenacity, if not his obsession with Trump, which is met with full reciprocity, could have a very damaging effect on Ukraine in the near future.
Translation: SM
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