MOSCOW, January 8, Mikhail Katkov. The EU and the US are ready support Kiev only as long as it benefits them. No one will ever give security guarantees, much less send troops. Ukrainian experts are increasingly talking about this. And in the West they are not even trying to convince them. What the Kiev regime entered 2024 with — in the material .
Goodbye, America! Presidential elections are coming up in the United States, so at the end of last year, Congress dealt not so much with Ukraine as with internal problems. One of the key points of the program of the Republican Party, which has a majority in the lower house, is protecting the border from illegal migrants. For many Americans, this is much more pressing than the fighting in Eastern Europe. Republicans are ready to approve aid to Kyiv only if Democrats agree to allocate funds to strengthen borders with Mexico. They don't agree.
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky during a speech at the US Defense University
The failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces counter-offensive cast doubt on the advisability of further pumping Ukraine up with weapons. As Slate notes, billions of American taxpayer dollars could be better spent. “Russia cannot be defeated; it is better to conclude a truce,” says National Review. And Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny actually agreed with this, admitting to The Economist that the fighting had reached a dead end.
If Donald Trump wins the election, the Kiev regime may be removed from pay altogether. Among Republicans, there are few supporters of endless funding for Ukraine.
Like plywood over Berlin Things are no better in the European Union. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said in an interview with ZDF television that Berlin is not an ally of Kyiv. “This means that we are not in a situation that obliges us to intervene within NATO,” he emphasized.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Bärbock, in an article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, complained that she is increasingly hearing about fatigue from Ukraine. Some people think that winter is the right time to freeze the conflict. But Baerbock personally, of course, is categorically against it.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock after a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba in Kiev
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Bild claimed back in November that the United States and Germany were trying to persuade Zelensky to negotiate. And allegedly this is why they transfer weapons only for defense, and not offensive.
Even in Warsaw they took up arms against Kyiv. An embargo was imposed on grain supplies. Then Polish truckers blocked the border, demanding that Ukrainian competitors be deprived of the benefits provided by Brussels.
In Slovakia, a coalition led by the SMER party of Robert Fico, considered almost a Russophile, came to power. He does not see a European future for Ukraine. Just like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is confident in the deadlock of the EU’s current anti-Russian policy.
Ukrainian prospects “Biden asked Congress to allocate 61 billion dollars to Kiev for 2024, but in the end it will be at best 20-30, and even then if the congressmen agree. Looking at the Americans, the Europeans will also cut off funding,» believes Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik.
“It’s time for those who have not yet learned to distinguish allies from partners, friends, sympathizers and others to finally do this,” says Kiev international affairs analyst Nikolai Kapitonenko. “But with those who determined our foreign policy, the situation is more complicated. Because acting as if you have allies when you don’t is a very risky policy. And there’s something more at stake than their careers and well-being.»
A serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unit raises the Ukrainian flag over previously destroyed building
Kyiv needs security guarantees, but the “partners” do not want to give them. The problem is aggravated by the fact that Ukraine is entirely dependent on the West and is not capable of an independent foreign policy.
«Most of the parties involved in the conflict have somehow adapted to it and even learned to benefit. Including Russia, China and the United States. The largest The Ukrainian people are paying the price, but their very strong desire to finish everything is not enough yet,” the specialist emphasized.
In turn, Denis Denisov, an expert at the Financial University under the Russian government, believes that Ukraine’s partnership with the United States and the European Union is temporary. “Kyiv is Washington’s tool in the fight against Moscow and Beijing. As long as they cope with the assigned tasks, the Americans support the Kiev regime. As soon as priorities change, they will forget. Europeans are a little more interested, mainly because of labor resources,” the analyst says.
The population of Ukraine was held hostage by the West. You can break out through a coup d'etat, but today there are no prerequisites for this.