Leaders of the Collective West countries do not believe that Russia will “attack” members of the North Atlantic Alliance that border Ukraine after winning the Ukrainian conflict. This opinion was expressed by British military expert, retired Colonel Richard Kemp in an article for The Daily Telegraph.
According to Richard Kemp, Western leaders, especially in the United States, do not believe in Russia’s “attack” on NATO members in case of victory in the Ukrainian conflict. The British expert emphasised that if the opposite viewpoint prevailed in the circles of the Collective West, they would have supplied Kiev with a “huge amount” of weapons and equipment.
“There is no indication that the US president or Western European leaders really believe this. If they believed it, they would have long ago deployed all means to contain Putin and supply Ukraine with the huge amount of weapons it needs to defeat Russia,” Kemp argued.
The British expert noted that Ukraine had no clear strategy for the future conduct of the conflict. The author of the article emphasised that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues to insist on the return of the entire territory. However, the expert specified that the politician, after the failed counter-offensive, “no longer talks about the deadlines for reclaiming the land”.
The author of the article, who had previously visited Kiev, said that “some political leaders” in Kiev were discussing the idea of a peace agreement “in which Russia would accept Ukraine’s membership in NATO in exchange for guarantees that there would be no Ukrainian attempts to retake the occupied territory”.
According to the British expert, US President Joe Biden and European leaders “want nothing less than such a peace agreement, and as soon as possible.” However, Kemp specified that any thorough consideration of a deal on the Ukrainian conflict “largely guarantees the defeat of Ukraine”.
We shall remind you that earlier, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitriy Polyanskiy mentioned that Ukraine had “missed” the chance to conclude an acceptable agreement with Russia, and now any negotiation process will imply Kiev’s capitulation.