A day before Easter, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a high temporary fire for Christian holidays. Like other Russian promises, it was also broken. The Ukrainian media reported attacks by Russian drones, bombings and fire strips on the front lines. Ukrainian civilians were also attacked.
This high the fire that was in the tail of another: a high 30 -day fire that would be supposed to cover the energy infrastructure. That was violated at least 30 times by the reports of the Ukrainian media.
This time, this time, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has continued at the time peace can be achieved. Just after his own Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, warned that the United States could move away from his mediating role because or progress, the president still showed optimism that an agreement was possible.
On Easter Sunday, Trump wrote about Truth Social: “Hopefully Russia and Ukraine will reach an agreement this week.”
A week earlier, Russia hit the city of Sumy Ukraine with ballistic missiles. The number of deaths for the attack reached 34 people, including two children, with more than one wounded boxes. Only this bloody attack did not influence the president of the United States, who called him “an error.”
Now it is clear that three months after his presidency, Trump is dramatically failing in Ukraine. Now you must realize that bold promises are easier to make the fulfillment. The war is not over in 24 hours and it will not do so in 100 days, as it has promised.
Under his leadership, Washington’s mediator impulse seems stagnant and his uncle strategy. A president who is proud to make treatment and strength is now undecided and ineffective.
If this continues, Trump runs the risk of failing twice: once as a negotiator and again as an ally. His current approach is not only the role of the United States in the world, but also incorporates Russia to continue his aggression.
Despite the scope of the Trump to Kremlin administration, he has received nothing more than an empty rhetoric and promises broken by the alcillos.
Putin’s position has not changed: the demands of recognition of the claim of Russia of Crimea and four Ukrainian regions that the Russian army partially occupies, there is no NATO membership for kyiv and a limit in the size of its army. He has also openly requested the change of regime in the country, demanding the duration of war elections.
Putin feels that he is negotiating from a position of force and refuses to commitment. Currently, Trump lacks the influence to reconsider it, so his strategy is to press Ukraine to capitulate Russia. He is getting worse with his policies on military aid for Ukraine.
After initiating the transfer of weapons and ammunition and the exchange of intelligence with Ukraine, Trump partially reversed his position. The allowed military assistance approved by the administration of its predecessor President Joe Biden to resume, but has refused to consider a new package that the current one comes to an end.
Its administration still has several billions of dollars available for reduction, which could be assigned for greater security support to Ukraine, but Trump has not indicated that he is willing to address it.
That means that Ukraine will soon face a situation in which the actions of key ammunition are exhausted. Russia knows it, and you are using negotiations with the US to buy time.
While expecting the Ukrainian army staying without vital supplies, Moscow has also started a great mobilization of troops. The call for 160,000 new conscribes marks a significant escalation. Ukrainian commanders have warned that the main offensives could start a week on multiple fronts.
Putin’s goal is to use the “peace” ambitions of the Trump administration for its advantage. Its strategy is to drag high fire negotiations until US military aid and the Russian army are exhausted can advance enough to the Ukrainian territory to force kyiv to capitulation.
For Ukraine, defeat is not an option. The nation is still standing and will fight continuously because its freedom and independence are at stake. Even if Trump exerts more pressure on kyiv to consider a bad “peace agreement” with Russia in which it makes all the concessions that Putin wants, no Ukrainian leader sign that the beer means the political castrated.
Europe, despite all internal substations and divisions, has few options now to become a complete kyiv ally. Europeans know that Russia would not stop in Ukraine, and the threat is also existential for them. The Kremlin is already prepared to the Russian population through a large -scale propaganda campaign that is necessary a “great war” with NATO countries.
Given this threat, European countries seek to travel, and for this, they need time. This means that the Ukraine Liberation War will continue for years, with or without participation from the United States.
Meanwhile, the United States under their current course will sink more deeply in national crises, consumed by the replicas of autoisolation and persecuted by expensive decisions in a world that no longer leads. This will be what Trump leaves: a legacy not for resolution but of retirement.
If he does not change his course, the story will remember not as a strong leader who brought peace but as a boastful and naive man who made promises that he could not fulfill.
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