Trump Unseats Zelensky as Coalition War Leader
At the root there's nothing here for Russia to celebrate, more danger than salvation
Seeing that the US interruption in material aid to Kiev lasted only a week, which means in practice there wasn’t an actual interruption at all, a question has been raised whether it was all an act. I don’t think so. I think what we saw was Ukraine that was treated incredibly harshly when it made demands on the United States, but then got full backing when it made demands on Russia.
Ukraine attempted to tie its top priority, namely getting the security guarantee from the US, to what is important to Trump (minerals deal, the Trump process), and all hell broke lose. The US literally demonstratively downgraded its participation in the war. (AKA fed Ukraine somewhat less intelligence.) However when Ukraine limited itself to asking for an advantageous cease-fire from Russia it had the full backing of the US, and Witkoff to take the silly proposal to Moscow.
Symbolically I think what happened there was that Trump took over the formal leadership of the US-Ukrainian war coalition. Since Ukraine can’t sustain its war effort without backing from the Empire it is in the unfortunate position of not being the coalition leader in a war it sacrifices the most to. However, Biden and the Democrats preferred to “lead from behind” and outsource this leadership role to Zelensky, not the least because as a native he was the much better spokesman for their common radical grand strategy. Trump however has demoted the Ukrainian, which took two weeks that were as volatile as they were brief.
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