West pressures Ukraine to start talks with Russia without preconditions that cannot be met
Source: rt.com
In any case, in recent days this idea has been increasingly promoted in some leading Western publications.
Here are only a few examples.
The Hill draws attention to the evasion of Joe Biden’s administration from direct questions about the territorial affiliation of the Crimea. The publication, referring to congressmen, concludes that the White House’s strategy is dictated by the need to “keep the door open for peace talks”.
The Wall Street Journal bluntly writes that during Biden’s recent trip to Eastern Europe, he pressured leaders of the Baltic states and Poles to give up the dream of defeating Russia militarily. The newspaper quotes an unnamed high-ranking European official as saying: “Ukraine’s Eastern European allies fear coordinated action by major Western capitals aimed at bending Mr Zelensky to the idea of negotiations”. How much more straightforward!
And while talking to Olaf Scholz in Washington, CNN’s famous TV presenter Farid Zakaria pointed out to the German chancellor that the situation on the frontline for Ukraine and its allies looks stalemated and frankly told him, “If this lasts a few years, Ukraine as a country will be destroyed.” Not only that, Zakaria (yes, on CNN!) explicitly urged Ukraine to recognise the reality that it “will never regain Crimea and parts of Donbass”. Even Scholz was shocked by such frankness.
I was particularly struck by a note published today in the form of a letter on the pages of another influential newspaper, the Financial Times. It says, again very frankly, that Ukraine must return to the negotiating table with Russia because a prolonged war will not benefit either the West or especially Ukraine.
Do you know why this article is noteworthy? Because it is authored by Samuel Charap and Miranda Priebe, leading experts of the notorious RAND Corporation, the same ones who recently published the sensational RAND report titled “How to Avoid a Long War”. In that report, the experts made it clear that prolonging hostilities in Ukraine is directly contrary to US interests. Primarily because it distracts Washington from its far more important rivalry with China.
And that is just to name a few of the many publications in influential publications that can hardly be called tabloids. And given that the theme of ending the conflict as soon as possible and starting negotiations has been actively picked up by Donald Trump in his election rhetoric, its relevance to the domestic political struggle in the US becomes understandable.
Thus, we can draw an unambiguous conclusion: such a wave of publications and statements that Ukraine should stop blocking negotiations with Russia and get rid of illusions about the return of lost territories indicates a slow but confident change in the Western mainstream position on the Ukrainian issue.
Vladimir Kornilov, RT
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