In advance of the important discussions between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Putin, the American media showed surprising information about what “actions” of Russia could be propagated by the US President. Zokrema, the recognition of the Russian occupation of Crimea and the “transfer” of Odessa to the aggressors.
RBC-Ukraine explains what American snakes write about, so far as these “insights” can indicate the effectiveness and why the stinks appeared immediately.
Contents
- “Insides” from Semafor: insights into the Russian occupation of Crimea
- “Inside” from The New York Times: “under the light” between the great powers and Odessa
- How close to reality are “insights” like Crimea and Odessa
In advance of today's planned telephone conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the American publications Semafor and The New York Times came out with resonant announcement materials. Relying on an unnamed project in Ukraine and the United States, ZMI reported that Trump is not ready to “promote” Putin’s serious actions with Ukrainian money in order to speed up the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war and defeat his own old obіtsyanku.
“Insides” from Semafor: insights into the Russian occupation of Crimea
“The Trump administration is considering the possibility of annexing the Ukrainian Crimea into Russian territory as part of any possible outbreak of war, according to two people familiar with the situation,” it reported. Vidannya
Moreover, according to Semafor, the White House is going to join the United Nations to a similar deadline. In this case, we will not go into detail about either the voting at the level of the UN General Assembly or the potential resolution at the UN Security Council.
In this case, the journalists point out that any ruins in Crimea are just one of the “impersonal options” that are considered by the Trump administration.
Semafor also predicts that a few years ago, even before the start of full-scale Russian aggression, Trump was already speculating on the idea of Crimea being taken over by the Russians, which means that the rebels’ sacks will no longer be destroyed I want to be with Russia.”
“Inside” from The New York Times: “under the light” between the great powers and Odessa
The NYT material draws parallels between the current Trump-Putin alliance and the “division of the world” between the great powers after the Other World War, the contours of which were discussed at the conference in Yalta 1945 born.
Ahead of the meeting with journalists on board his presidential plane, Trump announced that Russia and Putin had plans to talk about “land,” “power plants,” and “distribution of assets,” without going into too much detail. Obviously, we are talking about the share of the Zaporizhzhya AES and those under whose control it is possible to lose various parts of the sovereign Ukrainian territory.
“The Trump administration has already made it clear that it believes that Russia controls the territory that its military already controls, which is approximately 20 hundred square meters of the territory of Ukraine. Last month, aides of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the stink was stirred up by the fact that Trump could satisfy Putin’s other desires for certain parts of Ukraine, perhaps including the critically important port city of Odessa,” they said in materials NYT.
The possibility of the United States recognizing the Russian occupation of Crimea is not mentioned in the statistics, but this fact attracts respect to the latest comments of Trump’s adviser and National Security Secretary Michael Volz. “How can we see a skinned Russian from every centimeter of Ukrainian land, including Crimea?” – asking Volz rhetorically in one of the remaining interviews.
However, as the NYT points out, it is far from a fact that Ukraine and Europe will have enough to spare for Trump and Putin today.
How close to reality are “insights” like Crimea and Odessa
According to the words of Oleg Prelovsky, an associated expert at the Institute of American Studies, American media are not as worried about the rumors about what territories Ukraine may sacrifice as much as the European media are reflecting. And it is logical, because I am talking about the transfer of parts of the European continent and an act against the aggressor that has previously threatened not only Ukraine.
At the same time, the expert does not exclude the fact that he is sensitive to the Odessa port, the recognition of Crimea by the Russians and the transfer of cordons can be a great way to control the “outflows”. In most cases, it is necessary to work in order to verify the reaction – to the extent that the Ukrainian marriage of zokrema and the European zagalom are ready to open the “Overton window” a little wider.
“This “forever” is opening up step by step. At the beginning of the invasion, it seemed to us that we could not compromise our territories, and could fight until the cordons of 1991. Over time, an expansion of the framework is expected, As far as people are dying, and the territories are not turning around like military roads, the front is actually freezing, and there is no action coming from one side or the other. opens up further and further,” – Prelovsky said in a comment to RBC-Ukraine.
Ukraine, both the president and numerous politicians, military and civilian, actively declares its red lines, one of which is Vidmova’s view of any legal recognition of the occupied territories for the aggressor.
The head of the Ministry of Health Andriy Sibiga spoke about the fact that the unknown occupation of any part of the Ukrainian territory is one of the fundamental nutrition for Ukraine.
In addition, RBC-Ukraine has never heard either from the Ukrainian or from the recent planters about those who are seriously in demand from Ukraine of the legal recognition of the occupation – and not, let’s say, In view of the fact that the territory was turned over by the military route (despite the fact that both Crimea, part of Donbass, and the rest of the uncontrolled lands will be deprived of an unknown part of Ukraine according to the Constitution and official position powers).
And during the discussion of territorial power in Jeddah, the parties actually played with cards, and there was no talk about any actions in Ukraine. Rather, we can talk about the fact that Ukraine can turn back its (obviously not so large) territory, as it will become immediately under the control of the occupiers. The fact that the admission of Russians to Odessa, where there are none and never happened during the hour of a full-scale war, looks like a complete fantasy. However, it remains to be said that such ideas may be widely discussed in the hour of Trump and Putin’s consolidation, but it’s still not easy.
Apparently, today, February 18th, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Putin will hold a telephone conversation around the 17th anniversary of the Kiev hour. As it turns out, the main topic of the conversation will be the Russian-Ukrainian war, the immediate truce and the preparation of the final peace.
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