Zelensky’s pipe dream is over. From Joaquin Flores at strategic-culture.su:
The liberal ideology is based on hubris, not humility, and therein lays the embryo of its own defeat.
One thing is clear. We must appreciate Trump’s high comedy. It almost never fails. After the conclusion of the UNGA meeting, U.S. President Donald Trump took to his ‘Truth Social’ account and stunned the unwatchful, unthinking parts of the world with his apparent 180 degree reversal on Russia-Ukraine. This came after a supposedly ‘important’ meeting between himself and the struggling Ukrainian President Zelensky.
But Trump and Zelensky met for barely seven minutes, which shows there wasn’t much to actually discuss. Trump’s hilarious Truth post afterward serves several purposes which work, in short, to the opposite of what might be textually understood from it. He is concerned, among other things, to continue shaping the image that he isn’t tied to Moscow, loyal to Russian President Putin’s agenda, or that the two men aren’t acting synergistically.
Trump has already made the case to his watchful and thinking constituency (which is not most of them, human condition sort of thing); a good relationship between the U.S. and Russia is good for both countries, and also the world. This is not based on feelings or idealism, but the real geoeconomic reality and towards a new geopolitical architecture based on multipolarity, and similar – but also starkly different – from older ideas relating to spheres of influence. The author argues in other publications that this is best described as neo-realism.
In either case, Ukraine is properly within Moscow’s sphere of influence, or, if you will, Moscow is the relevant pole of human, capital, and political gravity which in a stable world, Kiev is drawn to naturally. After all, Ukrainian people understood this fact in their own way, as seen in many elections. It took two, yes two, color-revolutions over the past several decades to derail Ukraine from its natural course as a fraternal country to Russia. Now Russia is using what it has, when it can, in a way that works, to undo the mess created by the Atlanticists. These Atlanticists are no friends of Trump, ideologically. Breaking them off from the group-think, one by one, hitting them with unique tariffs, or by appealing to their own voters or their own national interests, on the other hand, does create some very real possibilities and has perhaps already delivered some tangible fruits.
Now get out there and conquer the gas station with washing machine parts.
Speaking of exit taxes, the cannon fodder that escaped to the rump vassal zone will be forcibly returned?
Get ready for more glorious Kursk victories.
There was a lot of honking at Jericho.