Paradigm shift?
Possible translation: Zelensky admits that Ukraine can´t take back the territories occupied by Russia, but wants to get the best possible peace deal by giving Trump "an offer he can´t refuse".
Another possible translation: Zelensky admits that Ukraine has lost the war and can´t last another year (or another winter), and therefore desperately pleads with Donald Trump.
Will Trump bite? Probably. Will Vladimir Putin do it? I doubt it, both because he has the advantage (otherwise Zelensky wouldn´t have changed his line) and because a NATO-affiliated Ukraine would still be a military and geopolitical threat to Russia, even if certain areas in the east and south remain occupied by the Russian "Federation".
So the really interesting question is: what will Trump (or his "Neo-Con" allies) do when Putin sez nyet? Fold? Or actually step up the war, trying to force Moscow to make a deal? Another question: What will the EU and its member-states do? The brave knights in Germany, for instance, who made themselves completely dependent on Russian fossil fuels to compensate for their fake Green transition, and whose government is threatened by pro-Russian political parties in the upcoming snap elections? See also: France, Italy, Austria, Romania...
A less important question is how the Western media, who for years have peddled the lie that Russia is easy to defeat - or lost the war on day one - will handle the fact that they´ve just been publishing disinformation all this time.
Personally, I support Ukraine, but I always tried to be more realistic of the prospects on this blog than the "Branch Ukrainians" elsewhere. So I can´t say I´m surprised by present developments. OK, the idea that a European NATO proxy could be defeated by North Koreans never crossed my mind!
So the West may have lost this round. But don´t worry, there will be others. I mean, this has been ongoing since at least the 13th century...
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