Ukraine gives up its ultimate goal and wants to play word games to hold Russia?What does Putin lack the most?
Humanitarian corridors in four areas of Ukraine are evacuating civilians, and Russian forces have stopped their offensive.
Putin said the mission to strike military infrastructure in Ukraine is nearing completion. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the Russian military has basically disarmed the Ukrainian armed forces’ air force and warned regional neighbors not to provide airports as bases for Ukrainian fighter jets.
Previously, NATO has refused to establish a no-fly zone in Ukraine. The United States and Europe have begun discussing how to support Ukraine’s “government-in-exile” as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has to withdraw from the capital. U.S. Secretary of State Blinken acknowledged on the 6th that in order to ensure the continuation of the government, Ukraine has drawn up plans for Zelensky’s death.
It has been 12 days since the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. As a “peaceful affair” of European countries, on the 6th local time, French President Macron and Putin had the fourth phone call since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The Russian side confirmed that it will bomb the port of Odessa. At the same time, Putin told another “peaceful old” Turkey that it is okay for the Russian army to stop its operations, but Ukraine needs to give up the war and meet Russia’s previous requirements. He also urged Ukraine to “show a more constructive attitude” from a realistic perspective in the new round of negotiations.
Zelensky is still obsessed with meeting with Putin. In the media interview, he called Putin twice. The first time the Kremlin responded that “the time has not come”, and the second time he coldly dealt with the proposal. On the 6th, Zelensky told the intermediary Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he was ready to hold a meeting with Putin in Istanbul or Ankara, depending on Putin’s wishes.
On the same day, Alahamia, a member of the Ukrainian delegation in the Russia-Ukraine negotiation, said that NATO was not prepared to discuss the issue of Ukraine joining the organization, and that Ukraine would no longer commit to submitting an application to join NATO. Quick, you must know that Ukraine has always been “non-NATO non-participation” before, and isn’t the root cause of this Russia-Ukraine conflict because Ukraine is committed to joining NATO?
Ukraine has written “joining NATO” into its constitution as early as 2019. This time, Ukraine said that it is no longer committed to joining NATO, which is equivalent to abandoning this important national policy. However, if you look closely, Ukraine is playing a game of words, and has drawn a time line “in the light of current affairs”. “In the next 5 to 10 years”, there will be no more efforts to submit an application to join NATO, and some kind of “non-NATO model will be discussed.” ”, which is equivalent to presupposing a precondition.
The United States and NATO once promised Russia that they would “never expand eastward.” Facts have proved that “the mouth of the United States is a liar”; in the past 20 years, NATO’s five rounds of eastward expansion have finally advanced to Ukraine, even if NATO does not absorb Ukraine, but as long as With the courage to complete a series of deployments in Ukraine, plus the three Baltic countries, western Russia has formed an arc-shaped encirclement of NATO.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, various Ukrainian governments have been swaying. In recent years, pro-American ones have occupied the mainstream, presumably the inside has been infiltrated by the United States into a sieve. Russia has also made concessions to Ukraine in every possible way, and I hope it will not go too far. But after Zelensky took office, he seemed to be weighed down, his iron heart was against Russia, and he was single-minded about joining NATO.
It can be seen that the Ukrainian representative is making small concessions by not joining NATO, but Putin’s request for “Ukraine not joining NATO” is only 5 to 10 years? If it were that simple, Ukraine would not have been asked to “demilitarize,” “denazify,” and neutralize. Permanently neutral Switzerland, which once served as a buffer zone, brought 100 years of peace to Europe, and has also grown tremendously. Taking advantage of geopolitical advantages, Ukraine could have become a bridge for communication between the East and the West. However, a good hand of cards has been played so thinly that it has become the forefront of the confrontation between major powers.
Ukraine’s statement that “it will not be committed to submitting an application to join NATO in the next 5 to 10 years” has to make people think that Ukraine’s timeline corresponds to that of the political strongman Putin. Putin will be 72 when his fourth term expires in 2024. What is the most missing thing for a person who is already 70 years old? Of course it is time, the effective time of life.
Putin’s iron fist has spawned a tough government. Russian Defense Minister Shoigu once angered NATO: “Take history as a mirror, if you want to be tough on Russia, you’d better review history. If you haven’t learned history, ask your grandfather, what are the consequences of being tough on Russia?” But no matter how tough it is, even if it is A big country, even if it temporarily benefits in the energy field, no country can repeatedly toss and toss like this. After all, the threat of the United States and NATO is imminent.
So in a limited time, Putin should maximize the way for Russia’s domestic and foreign affairs. On the 5th, Putin said during a meeting with the crew representatives at the Aeroflot Aviation Training Center that the decision to conduct a special military operation was difficult but necessary.
Putin said: “Ukraine will build nuclear weapons with the help of the other side of the ocean, and then they will say, we do not recognize nuclear status, this is Ukraine’s own doing. Once Ukraine is equipped with a nuclear weapons system, from that moment, Russia’s fate will be would be totally different, because then our strategic enemies wouldn’t need ICBMs, they’d point guns at us, how could we ignore that?” The boys risked their lives fighting, “for our future. , for the future of our children.”
The Carnegie Center in Moscow recently published an article saying that Putin does not want to “rebuild the Soviet Union” as the West thinks, but is rebuilding Russia and the international order. In fact, the most important resource in great power competition is time. Ukraine’s idea is to appease the Putin government first in exchange for a short-term peace. However, without solving the substantive problems, Ukraine can only have a short-term peace forever.