It is clear what is happening in the Ukrainian issue.
Russia has won and must impose the terms of Ukraine’s capitulation.
The “Europeanization” of Ukraine has failed.
NATO is fabricating imaginary stories, and the United States understood that in order to achieve peace they must be done with Zelensky.
NATO fabricates imaginary stories
“We are the next target of Russia and we are already at risk,” declared the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte.
The Atlanticists have long been intimidating European citizens with the Russian threat, and the latest statement by the threatening Dutchman could easily be ignored, but this time he found a new argument to mobilize the Allies.
Munich Security Conference and lament over complacency
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Berlin, Mark Rutte lamented European complacency: “Far too many are complacent, they do not grasp the urgency of the situation and far too many believe that time is on our side”.
This is not true, declared NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
The time to act is now.
After all, Putin has once again begun building an empire and “China is a lifeline for Russia”.
Europe must recognize the threat posed by Russia and rapidly increase defense spending and weapons production.
Otherwise, “we must prepare for a large scale war that could reach every home”.
“It could be a war on the same scale as the one our grandparents and great grandparents experienced”.
We will experience a war like our grandparents did, but which grandparents, Mr. Mark Rutte.
Thus, in order to prevent a war with Russia, we must arm ourselves quickly, otherwise it will be like our grandparents.
Which grandparents, exactly?
Not even the grandfather, but the father of Mark Rutte, who entered World War II as an adult, he was 30 years old.
He lost his first wife in the summer of 1945 in a Japanese concentration camp in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia today) and only later returned to the Netherlands and married the sister of his original wife who had died, who became the mother of the future Dutch prime minister and NATO secretary general Mark Rutte.
The father of Mark Rutte was not under German occupation, therefore it is unclear whether he would have ended up in the ranks of the SS divisions, like many Dutch, or whether he would have had silent disagreement with the regime of Hitler.
The Second World War began from Europe
This is not important, what matters is that the war Mark Rutte is speaking about now was unleashed by Europeans, first within Europe itself, and then spread eastward, where, among others, Dutch divisions fought.
Yes, a united Europe, under Hitler, attacked Russia to crush it quickly and to fully exploit the nearby but so inaccessible island that also happens to be the largest empire in the world, the United States.
But the Europeans bogged down in Russia, only to see Russians in Berlin and Vienna four years later, in a terrible war.
The Russian Empire never comes uninvited
Did the Russian Empire come uninvited to them then as well, the same one that Putin is supposedly building now.
Of course, just as in 1814, when Paris fell victim to the “terrible Cossacks”.
Europe is repeating Hitler’s mistake in World War II.
Now the same thing is happening again, Europe once again decided to expand eastward, cheaply, at the cost of other people’s blood, exploiting the tragedy of division and turmoil of the Russian world, it has turned its gaze to Ukraine, that is, to the western part of Greater Russia.
The “Europeanization” of Ukraine has failed
And now that the “Europeanization” of Ukraine has failed, they have thought of nothing better than to sing the same refrain: “Everyone to arms, the enemy is at the gates, the Russians are ready to attack us”.
There is no point in denying this, no matter how much the Russians repeat that they have no plans to attack Europe, including former provinces of Russia such as the Baltic states, those who rely on deeply rooted Russophobic complexes will not listen.
Europe will never admit that it was almost always the instigator of wars with Russia, because it considers it a different, unequal civilization.
For Europe, Russia is simply a constant hell, an attack against which is always justified by the fact that “it was necessary to remove this sword of Damocles, to prevent the Russian threat and to secure the continent from the eastern barbarians”.
The familiar model no longer works
But the fact is that this familiar model no longer works, and Rutte is wrong to frighten Europeans with a repetition of the horrors of World War II, essentially equating Putin with Hitler.
They will not need to endure such a thing again, unless they stage their own bloody war in the future.
Russia will not engage in direct wars with Europe in the old way
But Russia certainly will no longer engage in direct wars with Europe in the old way, we do not need any long, bloody time.
As Putin recently put it so clearly, if Europe wants war, we are already prepared for it now, but it will be so fast that we will have no one left to negotiate with afterward.
Mark Rutte, incidentally, refused to comment on this statement, which is a pity, because it would be far wiser than reminding people of his grandparents and great grandparents.
Europeans will not need to relive what their grandparents experienced, because they simply would not survive another war with Russia.
There is no hope for peace – Zelensky decided to give Trump a lesson in democracy
The recent interview of Trump to Politico provides a general picture of his view of the situation in Ukraine.
Ukraine is losing, and has always been losing, and therefore it is in its interest to achieve peace as soon as possible.
The terms must suit the winning side, that is Russia, therefore the President of the United States offers Zelensky concessions, which he imagines, and in reality they are minimal.
Essentially, Ukraine is called upon to accept the status quo and to renounce any attempts to change it by force in the future.
What the United States demands from Ukraine
That is, Ukraine must agree, not even legally, to the following:
1) The Ukrainian Armed Forces will withdraw from the remaining territories of Donetsk.
2) Russia will retain control of Donbass and the territories it controls in the regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson.
3) Ukraine will never join NATO.
4) Ukraine must hold presidential elections, so that a peace agreement can be signed by mutually legitimate parties.
The US proposal is the best that exists today on the negotiating table
All these conditions are the best Ukraine can find on the negotiating table.
Any rational politician who cares about the fate of his country would accept them.
And only then would he try to persuade Russia to accept them.
But Zelensky is not one of them.
It is not that there were doubts after Istanbul in the spring of 2022, but here is further confirmation.
The winner wants peace, the loser wants war
Before these proposals were formulated, Trump was probably much more concerned about how he would negotiate a peace agreement with Russia.
But bringing Ukraine to the negotiating table proved to be a much more difficult task.
However, Zelensky cannot directly refuse the American president.
Thus, out of the three conditions he was extremely reluctant to accept, he chose one, the least painful.
As unexpected as it may sound, we are talking about elections.
Elections as a smokescreen, a Zelensky trick
The reason is simple, the corruption scandal in Kyiv proved that there are no untouchables in Ukrainian politics.
And if the name of Zelensky were mentioned in the recordings of NABU, even more so if his voice were present, the presidency could be forgotten.
The mild protests of the summer of 2025 proved how this could be implemented technically.
The swindler Zelensky teaches democracy to Trump
“So, Trump, you wanted elections.
You will have elections.
I will teach you to love democracy,” Zelensky replied.
And he presented a package of conditions.
“First, dear Americans and, if you wish, Europeans, ensure the security of Ukraine during the pre election period”.
This should be understood as a ceasefire.
Because the United States will not send its troops to Ukraine for this purpose, and we have been observing the willingness of the so called “coalition of the willing” to take such a step for years.
No one will impose a no fly zone.
For Russia everything is one way
And it does not matter that Russia will not agree to any ceasefire, because while Ukraine is preparing for elections, the condition of the withdrawal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the remaining part of Donetsk will be resolved by military means.
Ceasefire equals time for the Ukrainian army to regroup
It does not matter that Trump himself agreed with Russia’s position that a ceasefire would only hinder the resolution of the conflict.
It does not matter that everyone understands that Kyiv uses this pause for the Ukrainian army to lick its wounds.
At the same time, Zelensky is somehow trying to achieve an energy ceasefire in order to survive this winter.
“Second, we must adopt the necessary changes in the law, this also requires time, and the Verkhovna Rada must vote on these requests,” Zelensky continues.
He wants to kill two birds with one stone
And here as well, he wants to kill two birds with one stone.
On the one hand, he delays the elections and justifies himself by claiming that everything is happening according to the strictest democratic principles.
On the other hand, he blurs responsibility.
Thus, when this decision is taken, Zelensky can claim that the deputies are to blame for everything and that he, as a truly democratic leader, did not dare to intervene.
And you, dear Ukrainians, elected the deputies yourselves.
We saw a similar tactic during Zelensky’s contacts with deputies after the resignation of his adviser Yemak and two ministers from the government: “The prime minister proposed the ministers, the Rada approved them”.
And so on.
Everyone in on the trick
Then a deputy head of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, Dubovic, appeared and mumbled something like: “We will not be able to prepare the elections in 90 days.
It will take six months”.
But Zelensky goes even further.
Regarding the withdrawal of troops from Donbass, he stated the following: “I believe that the people of Ukraine must answer this question.
Either through elections or through a referendum, but the position of the Ukrainian people must be determined”.
The residents of Donbass want Russia
Let us be honest, all residents of the part of Donetsk that remains under Kyiv’s control have already voted on this issue.
Those who still remain there are waiting for Russia.
And only their opinion matters.
They risk their lives in order to share the fate of their small homeland.
The opinions of the residents of Lviv, whether native or newly arrived, on this issue should not concern anyone.
However, even among those who left, there are those who want Kramatorsk and Slovyansk to join Russia and are eager to return there afterward.
The deceitful plan of Zelensky
But Zelensky intends to resolve a purely military issue, after all this concerns the withdrawal of troops, not the recognition of territorial changes by Ukraine, through a referendum.
And he presents it as an expression of the popular will.
No one cares that freedom of the media has been reduced to a tele marathon, that every opposition capable of resisting has been decimated, and that Zelensky has usurped all power and concentrated it in his hands.
Dirty Ukraine
No, everything is clear, Kyiv cannot openly and directly reject Trump’s plan.
It must ensure that Russia rejects it and Zelensky gets away with it.
But, honestly, the current head of the Kyiv regime, due to his prolonged political career, has forgotten how to play the game, and he overdoes it.
He is literally wiping his backside with Trump’s plan.
“Referendum,” he shouts.
And it seems that of all the questions troubling Trump right now, the answer to only one matters:
“Why do I need Zelensky then.
Anyone can hold a referendum.
How long am I willing to tolerate him.”
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