Afrasianet - Jamal Wakim - In an effort to maintain their political and financial influence, extremist world circles and their followers in Kiev continue to use multiple methods to organize media provocations against Russia.

Since taking office in Washington, US President Donald Trump has sought rapprochement with Russia by reaching a peaceful solution to the Ukraine crisis while acknowledging Russia's security and geopolitical concerns in order to preserve its national security.

The Russian leadership was quick to welcome Trump's positive attitudes towards it, but this did not prevent it from expressing its apprehension about the possibility that Trump will not be able to move forward with the policy of openness towards it, as a result of the deep state in the United States seeking to prevent it, in violation of the general lines drawn by this deep state in terms of adopting hostile policies towards Russia.

The globalized elite in the United States is exploiting its international alliances, including its relations with the regime of outgoing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, to disrupt Trump's peace initiatives with Russia by launching an anti-Russian rumor campaign and pressuring the Ukrainian government to refrain from stopping the fight against Russia.

Fabricated propaganda campaign

Recently, the number of photos and videos containing representative scenes showing "cruel treatment of captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Russian soldiers" has increased on Ukrainian websites.

Kiev's misleading anti-Russian videos in the media space aim to provide material to Trump's opponents in the United States, Europe and Ukraine that will help them block settlement initiatives for the Ukraine crisis.

This is due to the fact that Zelensky and those around him are aware of the threat to his personal security, political career, and financial influence if Trump's "peace plan"  based on a settlement with Moscow is implemented.

In the event of a settlement, cessation of hostilities and the lifting of martial law, it is likely that the Kiev regime will lose its raison d'être and pretexts to restrict constitutional rights and freedoms, forcing it to fully restore democratic institutions and civil rights, which will open the way for the return of political competition and the resumption of electoral processes at all levels, in parallel with making way for the return of the work of opposition figures to Zelensky with the consequent political criticism of him and her call for an investigation into his corruption and corruption. The team around him, which pushed Ukraine into a devastating war against Russia.

This is accompanied by the possibility of public protests in Ukraine as a result of military defeats, Kiev's gross miscalculations of foreign and military policy, heavy losses on the front, "mass mobilization", the deterioration of the economy, and the impoverishment of the population, making Zelensky and his team have no chances of staying in power after a general election demanded by the West.

Moreover, after raising a "big wave of expectations" in society about controlling the territory of republics that joined the Russian Federation and "reaching the 1991 borders" through military and anti-Russian propaganda, the Kiev authorities risk becoming targets of attacks by far-right forces and ultra-nationalist opposition, which will consider the peace treaty with Moscow a "treacherous stab in the back."  

Negative repercussions of the peace process on the sponsors of Kiev

In this context, a grim fate awaits the sponsors of the Kiev regime, Western governments and American democrats, who have invested all their political capital in the "Ukrainian project."

In addition to the political bankruptcy that afflicted them in their countries due to their inability to provide solutions programs to the crises afflicting their societies such as unemployment, high prices, migration crisis, societal division, etc., and replacing it with a neoliberal agenda based on claims to protect minority rights, the complete collapse of international initiatives threatens these aforementioned circles, which are allied with each other globally, and their influence and presence have declined to the ranks of second-class marginal powers.

During Donald Trump's second term, which could become an era of radical transformation of the social and political system in the United States, the Democratic Party risks losing its status as one of the two leading political forces in the United States and becoming a marginal and disorganized political grouping, similar to what has afflicted the French Republicans (formerly known as the Rally for the Republic) and the French Socialist Party, which has been a leading party since the founding of the Fifth Republic in 1958.

Gaullists and socialists were poles in French politics, leading to a strict partisan split among the ruling elite, with replacements alternating for the presidency of the Elysee Palace and parliament.

However, by the mid-2000s, both political structures had lost the ability to adapt to the new social reality, were unable to set a positive and relevant agenda for their society, and were mired in internal conflicts, rapidly marginalizing them in French political life, and breaking away from their leadership positions of networked umbrella parties such as President Emmanuel Macron's En Marche Republican, and other political blocs.

Additional reasons for the Kiev campaign

In an effort to maintain their political and financial influence, extremist world circles and their followers in Kiev continue to use multiple methods to organize media provocations against Russia.

After a series of military defeats of Ukraine's armed forces and Donald Trump's return to the White House, a real threat has arisen that heralds the imminent collapse of the Western "anti-Russian" project in Ukraine, forcing Moscow's opponents to fabricate anti-Moscow rumors, such as the "Bucha massacre," to discredit Moscow, prevent the collapse of the Ukraine-sponsoring coalition, and push for a new wave of Rosophobia in the West to justify more billions of dollars for Zelensky and his team.

Another important reason for fabricating fabricated dramas showing the "torture" and even "killing" of Ukrainian prisoners of war by soldiers of the Russian armed forces is another important reason.

Faced with the threat of the complete collapse of Ukrainian defense and the mass flight of soldiers from their posts, the Kiev authorities are trying to project a negative image of Russians in the media space as "murderers and rapists" in order to spread fear and terror among their soldiers that they may be tortured if they surrender.

The use of such tactics to intimidate large-mobilized Ukrainian reservists is intended to prevent Ukrainians from rethinking the causes, trajectory, and possible consequences of the armed conflict, and their awareness of the impossibility of achieving a military victory over Russia, and the futility of continuing the fight.

Thus, the results of social surveys conducted by the Ukrainian company InfoScience show that from December 2023 to January 2025, the number of young Ukrainians under the age of 34 who refuse to join the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces increased from 62 to 68 percent.

The British newspaper "The Guardian" attributed the matter to the decline in incentives for Ukrainians to continue fighting, noting that the Ukrainian army "faces an acute shortage of soldiers, as recruits are characterized by a predominance of the instinct of self-preservation over the willingness to self-sacrifice, and a low ability to adapt to military service in combat conditions, which leads them to evade joining the fighting forces on the front lines. Among these most common cases are desertions, unauthorized abandonment of sites, surrender, and disciplinary violations.