Russia is enjoying contradictory White House messages to Ukraine
The contradictory messages of the White House for Ukraine cause confusion and use Russia. In the meantime, Ukraine continues to lose ground in the tense situation.
Russia is enjoying contradictory White House messages to Ukraine
The split representation is frightening. On the one hand, we see the White House, whose politics alternately proves to be loud, revisionist and sometimes - so it seems - urgently in need of clarification. On the other hand, the Ukraine is the Ukraine, where and looks at the peace talks. Hundreds die every day on the front lines where Moscow wins the upper hand, and children are often pulled out of the rubble of Russian air strikes.
The gap between Washington and Kyiv
While brutal war in Ukraine approaches the third year, there is a risk of an insurmountable gap between the two perspectives. The contradictory positions of the White House will partially be blamed. A remarkable incident occurred when the US Defense Minister Peter Hegseth said Ukraine cannot join NATO and also cannot get its limits back before 2014. He may have unexpectedly revealed a decisive part of a secret peace agreement between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin-or revealed an important part of Ukraina's diplomatic negotiation scope, which was shocked by Europe.
The confusion about troops
It gets ahead. The US Vice President JD Vance told the Wall Street Journal that the USA in extreme cases could send troops to Ukraine and would use both military and economic "lever". Has he really revealed the opposite of Hegseth's statements in Brussels that no American soldiers would go to Ukraine? Why didn't he mention Russia when he spoke in Munich about largely fictional totalitarianism in western democracies? Was it a promise of Trump when he said it would be "high-ranking people" from Russia, Ukraine and the USA in Munich-or did he mean Saudi Arabia?
The current military situation in Ukraine
During this short phase of confusion, up to 5,000 soldiers were felled or wounded on the front lines in Ukraine. Romania and Moldova have complained about Russian drones that penetrate their airspace. At least 13 civilians were died in Russian attacks on Ukraine and 72 injured. A Russian drone was on the Tschernobyl announced on Friday.
The secret diplomacy between Trump and Putin
A war takes place - and Russia wins it, and at a high price for Ukraine - while the White House seems to be clear to what it really thinks. Behind these fluctuating positions on NATO membership, the borders of Ukraine and US troops in Ukraine is the darker truth that we simply do not know what Trump and Putin talked about, which has referred to what Trump has called more than one phone call since he came to the White House.
It is important to remember the precedent: Trump has ended the isolation of the Kremlin from the West without concessions for three years. He left Marc fogel Freilassen-apparently in exchange for Alexander Vinnik that is accused of operating a billion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange. This gave Moscow astonishingly warm rehabilitation for an American television audience. But so far there have been no concessions from Russia to Ukraine.
revisionist narrative and their effects
Instead, we had the bizarre revisionism of Trump, which proposed that Russia had marched in because Ukraine was about to join NATO. To repeat it: In 2022, Russia attacked Ukraine, from a strategic feeling of concern to have to project strength on its limits, and in the mistake that the invasion would only take weeks and would be greeted with open arms. Ukraine wanted to have warmer relationships with the European Union and perhaps dreamed of one day to join NATO, similar to Selenskyj as a boy dreamed of one day to join the Beatles. However, both wishes were not feasible in the near future.It is obvious that Trump spoke to Putin more than with Selenskyj. He even indicated that Selenskyj's term could soon end because he finally had to hold elections and "not exactly great to express it mild". The effects of the most powerful man in the world that a mark chief does not have a current mandate and could soon step down are displeasant. This could be part of a private plan - it is certainly what Putin wants, since elections would undoubtedly cause chaos and a mandate that are questioned. Above all, it could have catastrophic effects on the Ukrainian morality - soldiers have to agree to continue to risk their lives for a president, whose important financial support see him as a "lames die".
an uncertain fate for Ukraine
Here the two mirror representations collide. Trump's world is one in which spontaneous statements can be bent and his telege's cabinet every hour the paradigms of global security without serious consequences. Your Echo chamber only confirms the corrected version of politics. On the other side of the screen, Ukrainians die, lose territories, see apartment blocks in ruins, consider the deserting and observe how the backing of the West disappears. This is a symphony of chaos for the Kremlin. You know what your goals are - summarized you are ready to get everything that is possible. And that is a lot if the main opponent, whom you actually fear, the United States, is so publicly insecure what she wants, why she wants it and where her red lines are.
peace talks have started, but the floor is not only shifting for Ukraine - it could develop into a dangerous swamp.