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Russian missiles on US factories in Ukraine expose the farce of a 'peace' that serves the Kremlin and not the victim of aggression...
Just a week after Donald Trump welcomed Vladimir Putin with ceremony in Alaska, Russian missiles struck an American factory in Western Ukraine, far from the front lines, reducing to ashes any illusions of diplomatic progress.
It was a brutal response from the Kremlin to the diplomatic spectacle that Trump is orchestrating, a clear message that Moscow has no intention of negotiating, but of imposing itself. And the American president, instead of reacting forcefully, appears confused, indecisive, and at times impressed by Putin.
He believes, as he himself said at one point when the microphone was open, that “Putin wants a deal for me.” A statement that sounds more like self-deception than geopolitical reality.
Trump's attempt to proclaim himself an architect of peace is running into the wall of Russia's sabotaging diplomacy.
Sergey Lavrov, the Soviet-era diplomat, has resumed the old game of dividing Western allies, while on the ground, the Russian military intensifies attacks. In the background, a much-talked-about meeting between Zelensky and Putin, with Trump as mediator, seems more and more like a naive dream, at a time when the reality is brutal: Putin does not want peace, he wants territory. He sees the Donbas not as a disputed border, but as a springboard for a future offensive on Kiev.
Zelensky is trying not to provoke Trump, not to publicly oppose him, but he cannot give in either. He cannot accept a “peacemaking” that is in fact a capitulation plan. Surrendering Donbass today means allowing the Russians to launch a new “blitzkrieg” tomorrow. But in the meantime, Trump and his emissary Steve Witkoff, a real estate dealer, talk about “territorial exchanges” as if they were at a Manhattan land auction, a painful trivialization of a war that has claimed thousands of lives and called into question the existence of an entire state.
The greatest irony is that instead of building strong alliances, Trump is deliberately weakening trust in the West. He has not set any serious conditions for Putin, does not demand a halt to the attacks, does not talk about war crimes, but continues to demand that NATO and the EU give more money, more troops, more sacrifices. And for what? For a “deal” that Russia destroys with missiles the next day. Moscow’s message is simple: you can have as many meetings as you want in the White House, but we will continue to strike where and when we want.
Trump, despite the spectacle, has not changed reality one inch. He talks about the offensive, he talks about victory, but he does not set any red lines. He sees himself as a mediator, but he does not mediate. He sees himself as a hero, but he does not intervene. He sees himself as a peacemaker, but in fact he is legitimizing the aggressor. He has energy, undoubtedly, but diplomacy requires not only noise, but also substance, something that Trump continues to lack.
In the end, only one irrefutable fact remains: while Trump smiles at press conferences with Putin and talks about “the history he is writing,” Russian missiles strike American factories in Ukraine and Ukrainian citizens are killed in silence.
This is not peace, it is a farce. And history, unlike what Trump imagines, may judge this chapter harshly./ Pamphlet
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