The peace agreement for Ukraine, which was supposedly “very close” to close, according to Donald Trump, has jumped through the air in minutes. Trump, who presumes to be a great negotiator, undertook it for shouting and attacks against Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenski, this Friday during his visit to the White House.
After being cornered in the oval and live office before the president and his number two, JD Vance, Zelenski left the White House without even signing the agreement on the rare earths of Ukraine. In a matter of two hours the tectonic plaques of the geopolitics have moved away by moving away the possibilities of an agreement and increasing the distance between the US and its European partners.
At the same time, Trump ended the joint press conference with his counterpart, and attack him in Truth Social again saying that he had lacked “about the United States” and assured that he could “return when she is ready for peace.” “We had a very significant meeting in the White House today. It was much learned that it would never have understood without a conversation under such fire and pressure. It is incredible what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenski is not prepared for peace if the United States is involved, ”said the tycoon.
At the time, the Ukrainian President responded in X: “Thank you, United States, thanks for your support, thanks for this visit. Thanks to the president, Congress and the American people. Ukraine needs a fair and lasting peace and we are working precisely to get it. ” Zelenski has risen from a negotiating table in which he was never offered a chair and in which he was never loved. Trump himself said last week that the presence of Ukrainian, whom he has also called “dictator” was not necessary to advance conversations with Russia.
The rupture that was lived on Friday in Washington is the culmination of rapid cooling that has occurred in relations between the United States and Ukraine since Trump came to power. Meanwhile, Europe looks with a stomach shrunk how the possibilities of an understanding to redirect the situation are diluted and is dedicated to choosing side. The previous courtship of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, was not enough for Trump to soften his position with Zelenski. In fact, Macron was the first to leave the Ukrainian and gradually the Europeans began to close ranks with kyiv. Macron spoke by phone with Zelenski just after the incident in the White House.
Sunday is expected to participate in the meeting called by Starmer in London. Meanwhile, in Moscow they smile with the images of an impotent Zelenski in hostile territory, while Trump was inflated by the aggressiveness of his own, who played with the advantage of the language and the fact of being in his field.
Before cornering the Ukrainian, the US President had insisted to the press that he is not aligned with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Shortly after the departure of Zelenski, Kirill Dmitriev, advisor to Putin, described as “historical” at x the time lived in the White House. Dmitriev is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and attended the recent conversations between the United States and Russia in Saudi Arabia. The vice president of the Russian Security Council, Dimitri Medvedev, was one step further: “The insolent pig was slapped.”
The Ukrainian had arrived a week after Trump called him “dictator” and Viera as he also bought the Kremlin speech about the need to hold elections in the country at war. After the pressures and repeated threats (“if it does not act quickly, it will run out of a country”), Zelenski ended up yielding and seemed willing to sign the Economic Exploitation Agreement of rare earths without Washington to give her commitment to the security of the country. If this were not enough, when he arrived at the White House Zelenski he met an interlocutor willing to recreate a kyiv power that during these three years of war has depended in much of the American military and economic support.
“You should thank,” said Vice President JD Vance to Zelenski. “Without us you have no letters” and “You are not winning the war,” Trump insisted. Everything while Zelenski tried to redirect the situation. To each phrase by the Americans, the Ukrainian ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova, melted more and more in her chair. Markarova already had his face in his hands when Trump reproached Zelenski not to be a “hard guy.”
Trump’s ego has always played an important role in geopolitics. Macron appealed to this with his male effusivity on Monday and Starmer with the real invitation on Thursday. But when Zelenski has tried not to fold before the Republican, he exploded. That the Ukrainian was planted, it was even worse if one takes into account that Trump saw him as a cause of one of the impeachment processes he lived in his previous mandate.
During the first Trump administration, Zelenski already had to navigate among the calls of US President, who insisted that he worked with his then lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, in an investigation against Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The Wall Street Journal He informed that Trump repeated the proposal to Zelenski up to eight times during that telephone call on July 25. At the gates of the 2020 election campaign, Trump had already hinted that he wanted Ukraine to investigate any possible conflict between Biden’s diplomatic efforts in the country and his son’s relationship with a Ukrainian oligarch that owns a gas company.
During Trump’s first term, the United States already sent assistance to Ukraine after Russia took Crimea control in 2014 and supported the armed insurgency in the east of the country. The pressures of the US president against Zelenski coincided with the freezing of an aid package for Ukraine. The Ukrainian leader lived a déjà vu when last year Trump instigated the blockade in the Congress of a crucial shipment of military and economic aid for kyiv.
The United States suspended Ukraine assistance in early July 2020. The call in which Zelenski was pressed to collaborate in Biden investigation took place on July 25. kyiv did not know that the aid had been suspended until August. The US Congress initiated an investigation against Trump to find out if he had really retained help to Ukraine in order to press the country to open an investigation against Biden and his son. The controversy broke out after the suspicions of a Russian interference in the 2016 elections, in which Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.
In the days after the scandal, Trump continued to deny the pressures, although he admitted the existence of the call with Zelenski. For his part, the Ukrainian ended up denying the pressures when he met the Republican at the UN General Assembly in September of that year.
Source: www.eldiario.es
