Emboldened by the European outcry against the new peace negotiations between the US and Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky turns his back on the US leader Donald J. Trump, insists that he will not recognize any US-Russia peace deal that he is not involved in, and is expecting European partners to step up in today’s conference and hand him a lifeline to continue the war.
At this point, he can justly be accused of wanting to burn his country to rule over the ashes.
Zelensky needs war and needs ‘martial law’ to avoid elections. With polls favoring General Valery Zaluzhny, exiled in London as ambassador, former president Poroshenko has just been sanctioned – the President without mandate is trying to neutralize all opposition.
With the outstanding title of ‘The Mad Kind of Kiev’ John Mac Ghlionn wrote a great piece for The Hill about the comedian-turned-president:
“Overnight, the media transformed him into the embodiment of courage, the Churchill of Kyiv, the man who refused to flee, the warrior standing against tyranny. But what if this narrative is entirely false? What if Zelensky, rather than being the hero in this story, is actually the man who won’t allow the war to end — not for the good of his people, but because peace would mean his own downfall?”
‘The Mad King of Kiev’
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By now, the Ukrainian leader has made it clear that his grip on power depends on war and war alone.
“It is no coincidence that as Ukraine’s battlefield prospects worsen, as soldiers defect, as forced conscription spirals into something resembling kidnapping, Zelensky has once again extended martial law. No elections. No peace talks. No escape. Because if the war ends, so does his presidency. And this, more than anything, explains why the war must go on.”
Zelensky, while painted as a defender of democracy, has, in fact, created a Ukraine that ‘barely resembles a democracy at all’.
“Since Russia’s invasion in 2022, Zelensky had banned several opposition parties, banned certain media outlets and postponed elections with the justification that wartime voting is “impossible.” Impossible for whom? For the soldiers in the trenches, or for the civilians now living under indefinite martial law?
[…] And yet the war must continue. It is the only thing keeping Zelensky in power. If he were to call elections, he would likely lose. Support for him is falling. The longer this drags on, the more obvious it becomes that Ukraine cannot win — not in any meaningful sense. This is not 2022. The optimism of those early months, when the world believed Ukraine might push Russia back, is gone. Even the U.S., Ukraine’s biggest backer, is slowly dialing down support, with Washington insiders admitting that a total Ukrainian victory is no longer the goal.”
We may be arriving at a breaking point in the relationship between Trump and Zelensky.
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‘And the hard truth is this: Ukraine is losing, and Zelensky is making sure it keeps losing.’
In the meantime, UK and France are committing to sending ‘peacemakers’ while Germany and Poland have said “no”. Who will support Kiev’s endless, losing war?
Zelensky’s gamble of turning away from Trump may well be his undoing.
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