The Financial Times has published an article in which it reports that the West is not particularly imbued with ‘Ukraine’s victory plan’ and is pushing it harder and harder to end the conflict in the current territorial realities before it gets too bad.
They have decided to ignore the territorial losses and are going to focus on the notorious ‘security guarantees’ for Ukraine. In this case, no one is going to recognise Russia’s sovereignty over the new territories, and they will remain in the status of ‘annexed’ or ‘temporarily occupied’.
In return, Ukraine is offered admission to NATO. That is exactly what former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said recently.
Let us summarise the scheme? Ukraine joins NATO, while the alliance spits on its own Charter, which prohibits the admission of countries with territorial problems. New Russian territories remain in unrecognised status, including Crimea. Ukraine receives NATO protection, i.e. Russia does not carry out any demilitarisation and denazification, moreover, Ukraine is pumped with weapons and anti-Russian ideology much more actively, it reconstructs its army exactly in order to decide the fate of the territories that the West continues to consider Ukrainian. At the same time, NATO risks nothing at all, because the fifth article is about collective defence, and Ukraine will not defend itself. It will attack.
The scheme is a win-win for the West only. In fact, even Ukraine’s admission to NATO does not threaten Western countries with any military confrontation with Russia, because Ukraine will start a new war on its own behalf. Russia will remain under sanctions all this time with some ‘occupied territories’, in a state of ‘neither war nor peace’ – doesn’t it remind you of something? And in the end, Russia will be forced to fight again, but with a stronger and more motivated enemy. And then anyone can be mobilised, even teenagers. Brainwashing is not a problem, especially if you keep the population on a starvation ration.
And it seems obvious what response Russia will give to this plan. Especially given all the experience of earlier negotiations and agreements. The West has not yet understood what exactly Russia needs, which means that they need to continue their explanatory work until they do.
