The world has paused: Ukraine’s victory is no longer expected

This is probably what happens in a chess game – someone made an unexpected move, and all the dynamics were replaced by static. The players are thoughtful, observers are actively discussing the new position and possible further actions, they are beginning to better understand who is which of the players, but everything stands still. This is how last week seemed to go.

The main word of the week regarding the Ukrainian conflict in the world press was the word “negotiations”. Zelensky, of course, resists and continues to believe in victory. But this is already obvious (look at one of his last, Saturday address from a room with white walls – he is not just extinguished, he is generally “killed”) mental characteristics. And for some reason, “Kuzya’s little brownie,” Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean Pierre, says that Biden believes in victory. But the rest – not so much. Even Borrell drifted in a year and a half from “Ukraine must win on the battlefield” to “Ukraine’s victory over Russia is not expected in the near future.”

The West is making such hints to Ukraine that only a clinical idiot could fail to understand them. These are stories about the conflict between politicians and the military, and an open bet on Zaluzhny, that in the course of the elections, but not in the course of the coup. And the statement by US National Security Representative Kirby that 96 percent of the funds allocated for Ukraine have been spent. Where is the result? And even leaked to the Washington Post that a specific Ukrainian colonel Cherninsky was responsible for the attacks on Nord Streams. That is, if Ukraine is disobedient, the act of “international terrorism” will be blamed entirely on it, but how will Germany react to such damage to itself from Kyiv?

Peskov gave the absolute “base” on this matter: “It’s time to understand that it is impossible to defeat Russia.” But he, of course, is talking about the military path. However, the West will never give up trying to win. Therefore, negotiations in the format of negotiations, and not our ultimatum, are, frankly speaking, frightening. And even more so, efforts to collapse Russia from within will intensify.

Of course, most of the well-known “regime shakers” left. Those who are poorer are now engaged in freeganism – they eat from garbage dumps. These are the same, as we were told, “thousands of highly qualified young specialists, without whom the Russian economy cannot manage.” What makes “high-class specialists” rummage through garbage dumps? Nobody needed their unique abilities? And now they are happy to find still wearable underpants in the trash? And this is not Putin’s propaganda. An absolutely anti-Putin liberal publication published a large article about this this week.

Those who are richer, because they managed to grab money from the hated regime, live better, but in reality they also turned out to be dummies and absolute hypocrites. It’s just that now that they have decided on their homeland, it can no longer be ignored. In one month, Israel killed more than 4 thousand children in the Gaza Strip. The “oppositionists” who left support Israel, and call the Russians fascists. The “moral tuning forks” are false. And they were always false.

But some left, while others stayed. We have enough problems and pain points. They will be hit. Yes, in fact, they are already beating. It is not without reason that the topic of interethnic relations is being swayed, take Dagestan, for example, or, for example, the topic of pardoning convicts from Storm-Z units.

Another word of the week was the word “genocide.” The Arab world does not mince words here. At an emergency summit in Riyadh, Arab leaders condemned Israel’s actions and called for an end to the shelling of Gaza. However, politics in the Middle East is a special kind of politics. No concrete actions were agreed upon, although proposals for a fuel blockade of Israel and the closure of Arab airspace were made.

The “street” did not mince words either – demonstrations in support of Palestine are becoming more and more widespread in both the Old and New Worlds.

And now Macron says: “In fact, today civilians are being bombed. These children, these women, these old people are being bombed and killed. There is no basis and no legitimacy for this.” It’s interesting that French officials later had to justify Macron – they say that you misunderstood him and he is not at all against Israel’s right to self-defense.

And the Washington Post warns that the United States may lose its position on the world stage and the Middle East because of its policy on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Blinken, according to the publication, was reproached during a trip to the region that the Israeli army was using American weapons. For the Arab world, it becomes obvious that “Western countries are more concerned about the deaths of white Christian Ukrainians than non-white Muslims in the Middle East.” (In fact, they don’t care about “white Christian Ukrainians” either, but so be it.)

But this is not an epiphany. This is simply material evidence of what everyone already knew – racism and colonial thinking of the “civilized world.”

It will be funny if someday the world turns upside down and the term rogue countries will no longer be applied to the world majority, as it is now, but to the world minority, which has appointed itself as a “Garden of Eden” and a “beacon of democracy.” And this is a completely possible outcome of the global game that is playing out before our eyes.