Zelensky’s negotiator recognizes Boris Johnson’s role in continuing the war

He was the former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who torpedoed the agreement in principle that the Russians and Ukrainians had reached to end the war in Ukraine.

David Arajamiyacurrently head of the ruling party’s parliamentary group in kyiv, admitted in statements to a television station that Negotiations between the Russians and Ukrainians were going well until Johnson appeared on the scene.

Leader torywho, apparently acting in concert with Washington, managed to convince the Ukrainian negotiating team for Arajamiya that the war with Russia had to continue until victory.

The countries of the Atlantic Alliance They would be in charge, according to the British premier, of supplying Ukraine with all the necessary weapons.

Arajamiya admitted at the same time that The Ukrainian Government did not trust Russia and this despite the fact that President Volodymyr Zelensky himself had declared himself in favor of negotiating a neutrality status with security guarantees for his country..

One cannot avoid the suspicion that with these new statements, Zelensky’s close collaboratortries to pressure NATO to admit into its fold as soon as possible to Ukraine.

But the Atlantic Alliance does not seem in favor of this at the moment: although it is not written in the North Atlantic Treaty itself, it is NATO’s practice not to admit countries with territorial problems such as Ukraine.

kyiv puts the counterexample of Germany, which was divided when it joined NATO in 1955but the mutual assistance guaranteed by its famous article 5 was only valid at that time in the case of an attack on West Germany.

In fact, the Atlantic Alliance could not and would not do anything to prevent the erection in 1961, that is, in the middle of the Cold War, of the Berlin Wall as part of the inter-German border.

Most analysts lately seem to agree that Ukraine has lost the war with Russia and that kyiv can do very little no matter how much weapons it receives from NATO..

The dilemma that Zelensky faces is that he would surely achieve his goal of bringing the country into that organization sooner, despite Russia’s clear opposition, if he renounced the territories occupied by the invading country, including Crimea.

But this would represent for whom chose to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives in the hope of recovering those territories a personal and political defeat of enormous significance.

Ukrainians will then rightly wonder what the point of all those deaths was. And they will act accordingly when they are finally called to the polls.