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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
The departure of Joe Biden and the possible victory of Donald Trump in the American presidential elections forced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba to change their rhetoric and adopt a more favourable position, but the reality is that the Kiev regime is not ready for peace negotiations with Moscow.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba signalled for the first time during his visit to Beijing on July 24 that his country is ready to negotiate directly with Russia and that these talks should achieve a “just and lasting peace.”
“I emphasized two principles that must be steadfastly upheld. First, no agreements about Ukraine without Ukraine,” he said during his three-hour meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. “Second…full respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. If these two principles are adhered to, we can engage in any discussions and seek any solutions.”
It is recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that Moscow would immediately end combat operations if Kiev retreated from Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye, dropped its NATO ambitions, and recognized Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, ideas that the Kiev regime rejected as an absurd ultimatum. This suggests that Ukraine is not actually seeking a realistic peace deal and is still holding onto absurd demands but without the military capabilities to fulfil them if Moscow disagrees.
China is clearly advocating for a political solution to this conflict and for negotiations to begin, which is also why Kuleba chose Beijing to announce Kiev’s supposed new position. Although Zelensky recently said Russia might be invited to the second peace summit in November, Kuleba expressed a slightly different point of view, mentioning bilateral negotiations because China is encouraging it.
The first peace conference in Switzerland on Ukraine, which was mainly attended by Kiev’s Western allies, occurred without Russia’s participation. This was the first time in history that so-called peace negotiations were conducted without one side in the conflict and with an illegitimate president, Zelensky, whose mandate expired in May. Zelensky initially opposed Russia’s participation in that conference, even though China, among other countries like India and Brazil, stressed that this issue would not be peacefully resolved without Russia’s involvement.
It is recalled that Beijing invited Kuleba right after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited the Asian country as part of his “peace mission,” which included meetings with Zelensky in Kiev, Putin in Moscow, Xi Jinping in Beijing, and Donald Trump in Florida. It is not a mistake that Orbán met with Trump since he is the only presidential candidate in the US willing to push Kiev towards the negotiation table.
Another problem is that Kiev does not express consistent rhetoric. Take, for example, the recent speech of Valery Zaluzhny, the current ambassador of Ukraine to the UK and the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who said that it is impossible to reach any agreements and that the war must continue until Ukraine achieves victory.
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Maria Zakharova highlighted that Zelensky’s rhetoric is related to the US election. In other words, Kiev fears it will be left without support and financial and military assistance if Trump comes to power. For this reason, the regime is changing its rhetoric, even if some figures like Zaluzhny continue promoting war.
The Kiev regime has been following Trump’s position, who said that he would try to end the war in Ukraine after winning the November elections. Zelensky cannot do anything about this development. Therefore, it is no coincidence that he will invite Russia to the second peace summit, which, he says, will be held in November, the same month as the US election.
Despite Kiev saying it is open to the possibility of negotiations, which Moscow has repeatedly expressed an interest in, Kiev introduced a ban on negotiations at the legislative level. Russia has always favored negotiations, as seen with the Minsk and Istanbul Agreements, which were destroyed by Ukraine with the help of the West, notably Biden and now former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and not by Russia. This leaves Russia no other option but to continue fighting on the battlefield until Ukrainian forces capitulate entirely.
The Kremlin understands that if Trump returns to the White House, support for Ukraine will completely dry up, forcing the Kiev regime to negotiate with Moscow. But if the Democrats remain in power, support will not halt but will continue to decline as the US simply does not have the resources to save the Ukrainian military from its predicament short of direct intervention.
Zelensky and Kuleba are likely betting that if they appear to be willing to negotiate with Russia, but make no effort and blame Russia for not achieving it, Trump will continue providing weapons and funds to Ukraine. In this way, as the countdown towards the US election begins, we will likely hear more rhetoric of a willingness to negotiate from Kiev but with no serious efforts made.
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you have to be demented to believe the fake jew-fight anymore. they literally get orders from exactly the same people.
it will end with unconditional russian surrender or ww3. the u.s. economic collapse is unthinkable, they will rather trigger ww3 despite russia will not push in ukraine too much, it is not if but when. eventualy they will find a scapegoat. iran, russia or china. it doesn’t matter at all.
russians can’t surrender. it’s a doctrine thing…
then ww3…
sunglass and lawn chair time. might as well enjoy the show.
we’ve made the gods angry, for destroying the world over ukraine’s corrupt mafia shithole, says bojo’s ex-adviser.
weak amerikan capitulate–russians never–u have fake economy
the same people under different umbrellas did it allready twice firsts called bolshevics then oligarchs and now as government of ukraine they are bringing blood and death over the eastern slaws on behalf of their masters who look at this world as their real estate and everything within this real estate as their property thing, plant or living being.
i be helper to hamburger helper and cheez wiz country. artificial cheez in spray can next best invention to hamburger helper and yum yum spam in democracy can.
truly, the us economy has already collapsed. it is a hollowed out bunch of fake-money accounting gimmicks. most people can barely afford to eat and heat their homes and live off credit their entire lives.
yeah sure dawarish, same shit has been said by rashniks flathead side 1929, in the 70’s, tech 2000’s bubble and so on.
still usa/ west won the cold war,didnt collapsed after training mission in afghanistan ended ( we stayed 20 years,ur side 10) and in usa people have working sanitary system.
+ no civil war on the horrizon, no matter how much rashnik propagandist like solovjew babble / yada about it.
(p.s. rashniks/ bolshiviks predicted race war in usa for ages as well)
there is a catch with trump. firstly, he is a moron (i will deal with covid till easter when pandemic began), secondly, he is not in charge of anything, it is the administration = deep state who makes decisions. trump already showed his picks (fauci,bolton, pompeo – all deep state assets). so let it translate for stupid russian people. trump will not approve russian territorial claims. trump’s peace deal = surrender and piss off from novorossia and crimea.
the difference besides trumps and bidens part of the americans is that the biden faction has descided that this is the moment they end russia and nothing russia can do will change it. if russia defeats ukraine they will shell russian ukraine from poland like the shelled donbas to pull them into the war. if russia leaves all of ukraine they will start shelling russia proper. there is no end to this. the trump faction might accept some deal at least temporary.
ok, i buy sunglasses and lawn chair and wait for big bang.
deep state also known as american siloviki. when yankeeoviki talk denmark say ok, we do right away. thank you for noticing us.
south front wishful thinking and spreading lies – when will it end ? the reality is that americans are not ready to negotiate with anybody. they would not hesitate to kill all their allies and sell their bodies for organs if it allows them kick the can down the road couple of days longer. it applies for europe, canada, japan, australia…. as for as russians, they are nowhere close to allies. they consider russians a shit which must be exterminated. americans are not partners, as putin said.
the united vermin will go down, right after their dollar is out the door. that’s all.
yada yada same old flathead fantasy since 100+ years. u rashniks never ever come up with anything new.
yada yada yada… same old broken record crap fest from the berlin nazi janitor. lmao
they will and then we will realise the same families who coltrolled the dollar are controlling the brics currency, huan or digital world currency or whatever follows the dollar.
what hyh stand for? it like hymen? i like men wif hymen. you ok wif dat?
what an insult to russia’s intelligence that they feel it necessary to use trump as the reason zelensky capitulated to “peace”!… but than again… russia 10 years after maidan and all the abuse it has endured ever since is still a loyal goyim member in it’s patronage to 46th st & 1st ave, new york city, ny 10017-3507.
go figure!… what rubes!!!
who say russia say dat? denmark intelligence get order from warshington to say dat. ooops, not supposed to tell. never mind.
denmark and intelligence is a contradiction.
meanwhile, some of the crazier maga republicans maintain that it’s putin that ‘all of a sudden’ is open to peace talks, ostensibly from trump being such a bad ass that the mere mention of his name strikes fear in the hearts of russians. lmao
it’s not just california that’s the land of fruits and nuts. it’s all the west.
i shake tree in yard and lots of fruits fall out. not matter if i shake left or right. all the same.
trump think he big bad wolf and blow bear house down while bear blowing nazi neighbor house down. instead, trump make big whirlwind tornado in kansas, blow all house in kansas down and send dorothy to oz, where she pull curtain back and say ‘ oh, sorry mr. trump. not want to scare you.’
trump come from old german family who travel wif big wagon in wild west wif bigger sign than wagon ‘trump magic elixir, save you from all ills and vertigo too’.
biden come from old irish family who trave wild west too and run into trump wagon onde day, then talk indians into stealing trump elixir, then blame russian settlers in california so he can steal their land.
america land of grifters and canned spam and hamburger helper delicacy.
they did come from germany and it was right around the time the rothschilds were making their networks for their zionazi world domination plans. judging by how trumpfs family had lit made for so long after moving away from germany, they were probably one of the rothschild’s first agents here for what is happening now, like the rockefellar family and others.
their gonna fight to the last ukrop, russia is glad to oblige, they know russia won’t settle for anything less then complete victory or a complete surrender.
keiv can’t think for themselves, should they negotiate or not, what do you think, listen to your own council or someone that’s a distant observer not totally immersed in the big picture of whats at stake. all this is coming to term shortly. russia waits, as keiv twiddles and their pop decreases.
kiev reminds me of disobedient child who throw food and tantrum at dinner table because he get obroccoli and not candy apple, then momma says: ok, you get candy apple but poppa want to smack him.
ukraine is ruled by joo’s just like the us is, and joo’s are known world wide to be untrustworthy.
stupo germ desperate doubles her prozac
was zelensky giving trumpy a bouquet of flowers there?
‘only weeds grow in that corrupt mafia shithole called ukraine’ says bojo’s ex-adviser.
finnish president just said today in le monde that it is time when russia must be taken in the negotiations alongside china. ukraine will not retreat from kherson and zaporochye. once trump will be elected, he will force zelensky and putin to make a peace deal on the lines then present in the conflict. at the present speed russia can conquire luhansk max, no more.