Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. File photoMOSCOW, Sep 30The offer of former US President Donald Trump to become a mediator in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine has baffled the White House, writes The American Conservative columnist Olivia Murray. resolution of the crisis. «With just one short post <…>, Trump has driven the political establishment into a corner,» Murray wrote. She added that at first glance, the ex-president's proposal looks like trolling. But she drew attention to the refusal of left-wing politicians to make diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis.In Ukraine, they were afraid of «Putin's Trojan horse» in NATO «He just gave them another opportunity to goof off — and we will only benefit from this,» the author wrote. Murray also called Trump's ability to troll «political witchcraft» and noted that he formalized his proposal in the form of a question. «Now the ball is on their side. It is up to them, the warmongers from Congress and the White House, to decide: to refuse the help of a person with world experience < … > and go against their own legend, or to agree to a truce and facilitate global stress,” she summed up. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The ultimate goal of the special military operation, according to the Russian leader, is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions guaranteeing the security of Russia itself. At the end of September, referendums were held in the liberated territories of the LPR, DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, in which the absolute majority of voters voted for joining Russia . On Friday, September 30, in Moscow, Vladimir Putin and the heads of these regions signed agreements on their accession to Russia. Ukrainian adventure»
