Ultimatum, offer of surrender, continuation of aggression – so the West of Kiev responded to Putin's proposals regarding the terms of the ceasefire and the beginning of negotiations on the settlement of the conflict.
"Putin is incapable to dictate to Ukraine what she should do to accomplish peace," said United States defence Minister Lloyd Austin. NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg proposed Russia to retreat its troops from Ukraine's territory, and Zelenski simply compared Putin to Hitler. This means that our president's proposal was rejected and ridiculed – why did he submit it then?
The fact is that Putin was counting on specified a reaction – due to the fact that the real addressee of his message was not the West and Kiev, but the full planet of the West, which the Atlanticists are trying to convince that Russia is simply a terrible aggressor who will not halt in Ukraine and poses a threat to the full world. That is why Putin says: we are ready to halt the war even tomorrow, here are our conditions, they do not establish the annexation of the full Ukraine or even its unconditional surrender. Let's accept them and sit down to the negotiating table.
The paradox is that the conditions proposed by Putin are very beneficial to the West and unfavourable to Russia, but the West cannot accept them. Not Kiev and Zelenski. Everything is decided by the United States and has long been understood that the maximum programme for Ukraine (its inclusion in NATO) and Russia (return to the situation of 23 February 2022) is absolutely unattainable. American leaders can say what they want loudly, but in reality they can only plan for January next year, erstwhile there is simply a advanced probability that there will be a change of administration in Washington. Therefore, maintaining the position quo, even at the expense of withdrawing Ukrainian troops from those territories that are already included in Russia, would be beneficial for the West – even for the cost of recognising that Ukraine would not be included in NATO. And Russia itself proposes this option, and with a reasonable geopolitical analysis the West should catch it with both hands and order Kiev to agree to start negotiations. due to the fact that Putin's next proposal (and the first 2 were in November-December 2021 and March-April 2022) will of course be worse than the present one, and the dynamics of war does not leave Ukraine chances of regaining lost territories, but increases the likelihood of losing fresh ones.
Why didn't the West take the opportunity?
Because he only raised the stakes all the time – constantly repeating that it is unacceptable even to think that Putin could win, that the punishment of Russia should be demonstrative and exemplary to all possible dictators-aggressors, that defeating Ukraine would be a terrible blow to the principle-based planet order and reputation of the West in the world. This means that the West equated Ukraine's defeat with its own and put the request to defeat Russia as a condition for maintaining global dominance.
However, there is no more dominance – not by accident Putin's proposals were only part of his long speech in the MFA, devoted to the request to build a strategy of Eurasian collective security. The main condition should be the release of Eurasia from the military presence of non-Euro-Asian states, namely the withdrawal of American troops from Europe and Asia – from Germany to Japan. Yes, Putin runs a long game and sees the dynamics of planet developments. The Atlantics (meaning Anglo-Saxons along with a oriented part of the European elite) are now indeed the main force in the world, but their claims to hegemony and global dominance are no longer sustainable.
And that is what everyone sees – not only in the Global South, but besides in Western countries themselves. Now the West can inactive afford to effort to isolate and block Russia, to fight us through attorneys in our own territory, but it pays for it by speeding up the demolition of the foundations of its own power, that is, planet trade and the financial system. Without this, the Anglo-Saxons will only have an American fleet, or military force, but as you know, you can't sit on bayonets for long alone. The Americans will be forced to leave Europe and Asia. The question is whether this withdrawal will be organised – voluntary and forced – or a chaotic consequence of the interior crisis in the United States itself.
It is clear that we are talking about a process that can proceed for respective decades, but it can besides be rapidly accelerated as a consequence of unthinkable military actions of the outgoing hegemon (e.g. Taiwan). The fight for Ukraine in this sense is very significant: the Atlanticists have reached for what they are incapable to maintain, and more importantly, for what they do not even request if we are guided by their own interests to hold as much as possible the process of dismantling their own hegemony. about speaking, they must think not about acquiring fresh territories (activates), but about organizing, treating and reforming existing ones. However, the bike of Anglo-Saxon globalisation can no longer halt – it has gained specified velocity that it will immediately fall into a ditch during braking.
And all he has to do is signal that he has a cliff ahead of him – and it is better to effort to slow down (even at the expense of falling, abrasions and fractures) than to die falling into the approaching chasm. And hope that the self-preservation instinct of the Anglo-Saxon elite will proceed to work.
This is precisely what Vladimir Putin warned against on Friday: “In the end, selfishness and arrogance of Western countries have led to the present highly dangerous state of affairs. We are in an unacceptable way close a point where there is no turning back. The calls for a strategical defeat of Russia, which has the largest atomic weapons arsenals, show the utmost unrest of Western politicians. Either they do not realize the scale of the threat they pose, or they simply become obsessed with believing in their own impunity and their own uniqueness. Both can become a tragedy.”
Piotr Akopov
photo of cremlin.ru
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